Simone Atangana Bekono

Simone Atangana Bekono (born 1991) is a Dutch author. Her debut novel Confrontations was published in 2020 and translated to English in 2024.

Atangana Bekono studied creative writing at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. In 2017, she published a poetry collection Hoe de eerste vonken waren zichtbaar (How the First Sparks Became Visible) for which in 2018 she received the Poetry Debut Award Aan Zee.

She writes columns for the national newspaper, NRC, and for the Zomer Magazine of another national newspaper, de Volkskrant.

On 1 November 2022, Atangana Bekono was appointed honorary fellow at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.

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