Simone Atangana Bekono Author

Simone Atangana Bekono studied Creative Writing at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. In 2017 her poetry collection How the First Sparks Became Visible came out and was awarded the Poëziedebuutprijs Aan Zee for best first collection in 2018. The collection was published in the UK by Emma Press in January 2021. The major Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant listed her as one of the 3 literary talents twice, for the year 2020 and 2021. Confrontations is her first novel.