Seynabou Sonko

Seynabou Sonko is a multidisciplinary artist from the Senegalese diaspora, based in Paris. Trained at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels and the Université Paris 8, she has developed a body of work at the crossroads of literature, music and cinema.

Her first texts appeared in the magazines Sabir, Muscle and Sève, before the publication in 2023 of Djinns, her first novel, with Editions Grasset. Winner of the Prix du Cheval Blanc and the Prix de la Porte Dorée, Djinns marks the remarkable entry of a singular voice on the contemporary literary scene.

Alongside her work as a writer, Seynabou Sonko is also a scriptwriter, singer and composer. Her ever-expanding artistic universe is built around the dialectic of overflow - whether of language, through the notion of creolization dear to Édouard Glissant, or of genre hybridity, exploring in particular the aesthetics of Giallo, the Italian genre at the frontier of crime, horror and eroticism.

Driven by an intense creative energy, Seynabou Sonko questions forms, codes and allegiances, the better to subvert them and offer a work that is free, moving and profoundly contemporary.