Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 - 14 June 1995), born
Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet. Though he was only 47 when he died, Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the "New African Writing." His novel
The Antipeople won the
Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. In his later years, he ran a theatrical company in
Brazzaville in the
Republic of the Congo.