🇫🇷 COLOMBE SCHNECK for 🇿🇦 The African Imaginary at Ake Book Festival 🇳🇬 Colombe Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including her acclaimed memoir ‘Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories’. She has received prizes from the Académie Française, Madame Figaro, and the Société des Gens de Lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut Français, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives. Colombe recorded her ‘4 Favourites’ with The African Imaginary at Ake Book Festival in Lagos, Nigeria:
Here are her 4 Favourites:
1. The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
2. Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala
3. Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
4. Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
