Silence of the Horizons (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781639640683)

Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Beyrouk) is a French-speaking Mauritanian journalist and author five novels and a collection of short stories. He received the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize for his novle Le Tambour des Larmes (the Drum of Tears) in 2016 as well as the Prix du Romann metis des Lyceens. His novel PARIAHS was the first complete work of his to be translated and published in the United States. Most recently, his novel SAARA was awarded the 2023 Prix Litteraire les Afriques, awarded annually to an African writer of fiction highlighting human, societal or political issues related to Africa and its diaspora.Previous winners have included Imbolo Mbue and Ayobami Adebayo and it is awarded by the Swiss Association La Cene Literary

Marjolijn de Jager, Ph.D. is a literary translator with a special interest in Francophone African literature, both Sub-Saharan and from the Maghreb. She has worked closely over the past several years with Schaffner Press as translator, most recently on the Albertine Award winning novel, MILWAUKEE BLUES by Louis Philippe Dalembert, named one of the best books of world literature in Library Journal for 2023. Of Dutch descent, she grew up in Indonesia and Holland, and later after immigrating to the US, earned her masters and doctorate degrees from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill. She lives in Stamford, Connecticutt with her husband, a social worker and photographer.