WRITER

Sony Lab'ou Tansi

1947 - 1995

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Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 – 14 June 1995), born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet in French language. Though he was only 47 when he died, Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the "New African Writing." His novel The Antipeople won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sony Lab'ou Tansi has received more than 40,516 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Sony Lab'ou Tansi is the 5,386th most popular writer (up from 5,403rd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Democratic Republic of the Congo (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Congolese Writer.

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  • 41k

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  • 46.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La vie et demie
1979
Les Sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez
1985
Les sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez
1985
Le commencement des douleurs
1995
L' atelier de Sony Labou Tansi
2005
L' anté-peuple
1983

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sony Lab'ou Tansi ranks 5,386 out of 7,302. Before her are Marieluise Fleißer, Jan Twardowski, Ali Smith, Jeanne Dumée, Tommaso Grossi, and Richard Llewellyn. After her are Kim Newman, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, László Németh, Karim Rashid, and Roland Dorgelès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Sony Lab'ou Tansi ranks 585. Before her are Jerónimo de Sousa, Cindy Williams, Frank Shorter, Nurlan Balgimbayev, Stuart Hameroff, and Majgull Axelsson. After her are Subhash Kak, Babita, Rakhee Gulzar, Theda Skocpol, Charles Rabemananjara, and John Varley. Among people deceased in 1995, Sony Lab'ou Tansi ranks 260. Before her are Maurinho, Benjamin Mazar, Robertson Davies, Genrikh Kasparyan, Fischer Black, and Giorgio Bocchino. After her are George Stibitz, Henry Roth, John Peters Humphrey, George Abbott, Sergei Grinkov, and Margaret Woodbridge.

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In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among people born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sony Lab'ou Tansi ranks 29 out of 107. Before her are Jean-Pierre Bemba (1962), Franco Luambo (1938), Mwepu Ilunga (1949), Koffi Olomide (1956), Dikembe Mutombo (1966), and Cyrille Adoula (1921). After her are José Bosingwa (1982), Kazadi Mwamba (1947), Mwanza Mukombo (1945), Mavuba Mafuila (1949), Kakoko Etepé (1950), and Tubilandu Ndimbi (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among writers born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sony Lab'ou Tansi ranks 1. 

Congolese born Writers

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