by Erik Orsenna · Altaya · tapa dura · ISBN 9788448724788
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«Una dama africana» is the literary fiction novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Altaya in 2008 in hardback (377 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows the experiences of an African woman through different stages of her life; through her gaze, conflicts of identity, cultural roots and the social difficulties of her environment are addressed, with a tone that combines intimate reflection with the portrait of a society in transformation.
The text is the Spanish translation of the original novel «Madame Bâ», by Juan Manuel Salmerón Arjona. The cover includes the subtitle «Vivencias de mujer».
For readers interested in contemporary literary fiction, African literature and stories with a female protagonist.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
