Simone Atangana Bekono

Simone Atangana Bekono was born in 1991 in Dongen, the Netherlands. She studied creative writing at ArtEZ University of the Arts and completed her studies in 2016 with an award-winning collection of poetry. In 2020, the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant named her one of the literary talents of the year. Her first novel is Salomés Zorn.