Seynabou Sonko

Seynabou Sonko is a Paris-based artist from the Senegalese diaspora. A graduate of UQAM in Montreal, ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels and Université Paris 8, she has developed a body of work at the crossroads of literature, music and cinema. Her first literary works appeared in magazines such as Sabir, Muscle and Sève. In 2023, she published her first novel, Djinns, with Editions Grasset, which won the Prix du Cheval Blanc and the Prix de la Porte Dorée. Also a musician, screenwriter and singer, Seynabou Sonko has established herself as a singular new voice on the contemporary literary scene. Her ever-expanding artistic project focuses on the dialectic of overflow, whether it's a question of language through the notion of creolization developed by Martinique poet, novelist and philosopher Édouard Glissant, or the hybridity characteristic of Giallo, the Italian genre novels and films that straddle the border between 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.