Fiston Nasser Mwanza Mujila (born 1981 in Lubumbashi) is a Congolese writer.
[1] Fiston Mwanza Mujila was the recipient of the gold medal for literature at the 2009 Francophone Games in Lebanon for his text "The Night".
[4] This translation was also published by Jacaranda Books in the UK and Scribe in Australia and New Zealand.
Other translations of Tram 83 have appeared in Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish and German.
Mujila was awarded the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature on 19 March 2016 for Tram 83,[5] the novel having earlier been announced on the longlist for the Man Booker International Prize,[6][7] and awarded the Grand Prix of Literary Associations (Belles-Lettres Category) on 26 February 2016.