Seynabou Sonko

Seynabou Sonko (1993, France) is a Paris-based artist from the Senegalese diaspora. A graduate of UQAM in Montreal, ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels and Université Paris 8, her first literary steps were marked by the publication of texts in magazines such as Sabir, Muscle and Sève. In 2023, she published her first novel, Djinns, with Editions Grasset, winning the Prix du Cheval Blanc and the Prix de la Porte Dorée. Seynabou Sonko is also a musician, screenwriter and singer. Her musical universe, like her writing, testifies to an overflowing creativity and an assertive desire to break boundaries.

Seynabou Sonko’s project focuses on the dialectic of overflow, whether in language through the notion of creolization developed by Martinique poet, novelist and philosopher Édouard Glissant, or in the hybridity specific to Giallo, the Italian genre novels and films that straddle the border between crime, horror and eroticism.