Fiston Mwanza MujilaFiston Mwanza Mujila was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1981 and lives today in Austria. His debut novel, Tram 83, published in English in 2015 by Deep Vellum (translation by Roland Glasser), won the Etisalat Prize for Literature and theGerman International Literature Award, and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Prix litteraire du Monde. In addition to the poetry collection The River in the Belly (published by Deep Vellum in 2021, translation by J. Bret Maney), he is the author of the poetry collections Craquelures (2011) and Soleil prive de mazout (2016), as well as three plays, Et les moustiques sont des fruits a pepins (2015), Te voir dresse sur tes deux pattes ne fait que mettre de l'huile sur le feu (2015), and Zu der Zeit der Koniginmutter (2018). His writing responds to political turbulence in his native country and frequently foregrounds its debt to jazz. Read More Read Less