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Sami Tchak
Togolese writer
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Sadamba Tcha-Koura (born 1960 in Bowounda), pen-name Sami Tchak, is a Togolese writer.
Biography
[edit]After a dissertation in philosophy at the University of Lomé in 1983, Sami Tchak taught in a high school for three years. He arrived in France in 1986 to start his sociology studies, and obtained his PhD at the Sorbonne University in 1993. His research on prostitution in Cuba carried him to the island for seven months in 1996, resulting in the publication of the essay "Prostitution à Cuba. Communisme, ruses and débrouilles" (foreword by the Cuban writer Eduardo Manet). The discovery of Mexican and Colombian culture significantly influenced his literary choices. These places and the great writers who come from them offered him new horizons of writing.
Since the novel Hermina, published by Gallimard in 2003, all his works take place in an imaginary Latin American setting, which actually is far more similar to Africa. Besides the short stories and articles that has appeared in several magazines and revues, he has published six novels and four essays.
In 2004, Sami Tchak won the Grand Prix of Black African Literature for the entire range of his work.
His novels have been translated into Spanish, German and
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Summary: Are you a Black writer? » « Do you define yourself as a universal writer? » « Why write in French rather than in your mother tongue? » « Why not write about your country rather than the rest of the world? »
These questions inaugurate each chapter of La couleur de l’écrivain. Then, through a series of polyphonic responses (via other fictional « mouthpieces »), Sami Tchak develops a double work of poetic creation (one thinks in particular of humorous processes) and sociological analysis. Because it is above all a question of a socio-history of literature, and if the writer delivers symbolic elements of his « geo-biography » from the first chapters, it is precisely symbolic. In the spirit of The Rules of Art (Pierre Bourdieu), The World Republic of Letters (Pascale Casanova), or the work of Nathalie Heinich (On Visibility), Sami Tchak reminds us that for literature to « reach us », it must be taken up by institutional actors and « instances of consecration and legitimization ». This is about talking about the commercial circulation of books and their material and economic production conditions – otherwise, the writer (even just the writer!) does not exist.
(courtesy of Celia Sadai. Link to the full review here)
Publication: Continents