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Trifonia Melibea Obono
Trifonia Melibea Obono Ntutumu was born in Equatorial Guinea in 1982. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies and Equality Policies from the University of Salamanca and a Master’s degree in International Cooperation and Development from the University of Murcia. She worked as a professor of Journalism and Political Science at the National University of Equatorial Guinea from 2012 to 2023 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. A prolific writer, she has published several novels, short stories, and numerous articles, and she is one of the most avant-garde voices among authors from the former Spanish colony. She has received three awards: the 2018 International Prize for African Literatures “Justo Bolekia Boleká” for her work Las mujeres hablan mucho y mal; the 2019 GLLI Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Award for La bastarda; and the 2023 Periplo Prize for her latest work, La hija de las mitangan.
