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Calixthe Beyala
BornOctober 26, 1961
OccupationNovelist
NationalityCameroonian, French
Notable worksAsséze l'Africaine, Les Honneurs perdus
Notable awardsGrand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire (1994), Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française (1998)
Website
calixthe.beyala.free.fr

Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French.

Biography

A Cameroonian author and member of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents.

Her aunt and grandmother were particularly strong influences on her development, and she grew up listening to her grandmother's stories. Stories from which she drew inspiration and used to motivate her to work hard toward the creation of a meaningful career.[1]

Beyala was educated at the École Principale du Camp Mboppi in Douala and went on to study at the Lycée des Rapides à Bangui and the Lycée Polyvalent de Douala. She eventually won a scholarship to study in Paris at the age of seventeen, where she through a strong academic performance obtained a baccalaureate.

After a few years in Spain she published her first book, C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée, at the age of 23 and eventually chose to become a full-time writer.[1][2]

Awards

Works

English translations

References

  1. ^ a b Jagne, Siga Fatima; Parekh, Pushpa Naidu (2012). Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Routledge. pp. 75–82. ISBN 978-1-136-59397-0.
  2. ^ DeLancey, Mark Dike; Mbuh, Rebecca; Delancey, Mark W. (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. Scarecrow Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-8108-7399-5.
  3. ^ Dieudonné, Tahafo Fonguieng (2008). Histoire des Femmes célèbres du Cameroun. Yaounde: Editions Cognito. p. 77. ISBN 978-9956-412-01-3.
  4. ^ Martinek, Claudia (10 January 2005). "Calixthe Beyala". The Literary Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2006.

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