Kossi A. KOMLA-EBRI

Kossi A. KOMLA-EBRI, a medical doctor and writer born in Togo, has been living in Italy since 1974. He has published several collections of short stories and the novel Neyla (Prato Città Aperta Prize 2019), which has been translated into English, French, and Slovenian.

His book Imbarazzismi was published in France (Embaracismes, Editions Laborintus 2016), in the United States (EmbarRACEments, Bordighera Press 2019), and in Arabic by Q Editions. He published the French short story collection

Avant que tombe la nuit (Editions Continents 2021) and, in English, Home (Bordighera Press 2022).In 2024, he published the poetry collection Neuf lignes pour jaillir du futur with Azur Editions, and in 2025 the novel Là dove il vento cambia (Cosmo Iannone Editore).

He receives the Paul Harris Fellow award from the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International as co-author of the manual “Africa – Illustrated Health Book”.

Winner of the Graphein Prize from the Society of Pedagogy and Writing Didactics in 2009, he is co-founder of El-Ghibli (an online magazine of migration literature), member of international editorial committees, part of the World Language Council of the Dante Alighieri Society, and emeritus president of REDANI (Network of the Black African Diaspora in Italy).

He is a prominent voice in migration literature in Italy. 

His website: www.kossi-komlaebri.net