Sika Fakambi
From 4 July to 25 July 2018

Born in Benin in 1976, Sika Fakambi is a literary translator; she has lived in Ouidah, Cotonou, Paris, Dublin, Sydney, Toronto, Montreal, and now lives in Nantes. In 2014, her translation of the novel by Nii Ayikwei Parkes Notre quelque part, published by Zulma, won the Prix Baudelaire and the Prix Laure Batallion. Zulma subsequently published the anthology Snapshots and the collection Love is Power, ou quelque chose comme ça by A. Igoni Barrett. She then took on the translation of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. In 2017, she created “Corp/us”, a collection published by Isabelle Sauvage.