Stellar Review attention for Black Moses : Enthusiastically reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle , Chicago Tribune , New York Magazine , The Guardian , the New Yorker , the Los Angeles Times , New York Times Book Review , the Wall Street Journal , O , and Rolling Stone. Awards: 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) Winner, longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, longlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize, shortlisted for the Albertine Prize. Mabanckou also won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. International voice: Mabanckou is regarded as Francophone