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Léonora Miano
Léonora Miano was born in 1973 in Doula, Cameroon. She is the author of nearly twenty works of fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has won numerous literary awards, including the Prix Femina in 2013 for Season of the Shadow, published by Seagull Books in 2018.