Alain Mabanckou is the author of several prize-winning novels, including M¿ires de porc-¿c (Memoirs of a Porcupine). Blue White Red is winner of the Grand Prix Litt¿ire de l'Afrique Noire. He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.Alison Dundy lives in New York City and works as a librarian, archivist, and translator. She has also translated Sony Labou Tansi's Life and a Half (IUP, 2011).