Simone Atangana Bekono (born 1991) is a Dutch author. Her debut novel Confrontations was published in 2020 and translated to English in 2024. [1]
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. [1] [2]
She writes columns for the national newspaper, NRC, and for the Zomer Magazine of another national newspaper, de Volkskrant. [3]
On 1 November 2022 Atangana Bekono was appointed an honorary fellow at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. [3]
