Emmanuel Dongala is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He is currently Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Simon's Rock College of Bard Republic of the Congo (light green) Democratic Republic of the Congo (dark green) Congo is a name shared by two neighbouring countries in Central Africa, usually distinguished either by using their full official names or adding their capitals: The Republic of the Congo is often known as Congo-Brazzaville. It... Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Simons Rock College of Bard, also abbreviated Simons Rock College and Simons Rock, is a small liberal arts college located in the small town of Great Barrington (population 8,000), in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ...

In 1997, he was dean of Universite de Brazzaville when war broke out in the Congo. Simon's Rock President Leon Botstein, who has aided a number of refugee professors, offered him a job teaching chemistry at the college. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leon Botstein (1946 - ) has been the president and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities of Bard College, New York, since 1975, and is generally credited with elevating the academic and cultural reputation of the college to its current standing. ...

As a chemist, his specialty is stereochemistry and asymmetric synthesis, as well as environmental toxicology. Stereochemistry, a subdiscipline of chemistry, involves the study of the relative spatial arrangement of atoms within molecules. ... The two optical isomers of bromochlorofluoromethane Chiral synthesis (also called asymmetric synthesis) is organic synthesis which preserves or introduces a desired chirality. ...

He is the author of a number of award-winning novels including Johnny Mad Dog (French: Johnny Chien Méchant) and Little Boys Come from the Stars. His work is also featured in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa, was a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ...

References

• Simon's Rock College: Emmanuel Dongala
• Q magazine interview
• Simon's Rock online newsletter, June 2005