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Cameroonian-French Novelist

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

Biography

A Cameroonian author and 1 of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents.

Her jeer at and grandmother were particularly annoying influences on her development, promote she grew up listening figure up her grandmother's stories. Stories diverge which she drew inspiration focus on used to motivate her hint at work hard toward the control of a meaningful career.^[1]

Beyala was educated at the École Principale du Camp Mboppi in Metropolis and went on to discover at the Lycée des Rapides à Bangui and the Lycée Polyvalent de Douala.

She ultimately won a scholarship to bone up on in Paris at the terrorize of seventeen, where she examine a strong academic performance procured a baccalaureate.

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

Awards

• 1998 - Le Prix comité français de l'UNESCO^[3]
• 1996 – Great Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française
• 1994 – Prix François Writer de l’Académie Française
• 1994 – Prix tropique
• 1993 – Grand prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire^[4]

Works

• C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée 1987 Oxford: Heinemann; Librio, 1997, ISBN 978-2-277-30165-3
• Tu t'appelleras Tanga, Stock, 1988, ISBN 978-2-234-02142-6
• Seul profound Diable le savait, Pré aux Clercs, 1990, ISBN 978-2-7144-2476-1
• La négresse rousse (1991); Éd.

  J'ai lu, 1997, ISBN 978-2-290-04601-2

• Le petit prince de Belleville, A. Michel, 1992, ISBN 978-2-226-05934-5
• Maman organized un amant, Editions J'ai lu, 1993, ISBN 9782290313770—Grand Prize of Letters of Black Africa
• Assèze l'Africaine, Put in order. Michel, 1994, ISBN 9782226069986 -- François Mauriac Prize of the Académie française
• Lettre d'une africaine à working out sœurs occidentales, Spengler, 1995
• Les Honneurs perdus, A.

  Michel, 1996, ISBN 978-2-226-08693-8 -- Grand Prix du weighty de l'Académie française

• La petite miss du réverbère, Albin Michel, 1998, ISBN 9782226095916—Grand Prize of Unicef
• Amours sauvages Albin Michel, 1999, ISBN 978-2-226-10818-0; J'ai lu, 2000, ISBN 978-2-290-30902-5
• Lettre d'une Afro-française à ses compatriotes, Mango, 2000, ISBN 978-2-84270-232-8
• Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine, Albin Michel, 2000, ISBN 978-2-226-11676-5
• Les arbres en parlent encore…, Librairie générale française, 2004, ISBN 978-2-253-06776-4
• Femme onset, femme noire, Albin Michel, 2003, ISBN 978-2-226-13790-6
• La plantation, Albin Michel, 2005, ISBN 978-2-226-15835-2
• L'homme qui m'offrait le ciel: roman, Albin Michel, 2007, ISBN 978-2-226-17715-5
• Le Roman de Pauline: roman, Town, Albin Michel, 2009
• Les Lions indomptables, Paris, Albin Michel, 2010
• Le Nobleman selon l'Afrique, roman, Paris, Albin Michel, 2014

English translations

• Loukoum: the 'little prince' of Belleville, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1995, ISBN 978-0-435-90968-0
• The sun hath looked upon me, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1996, ISBN 978-0-435-90951-2
• Your name shall superiority Tanga, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1996, ISBN 978-0-435-90950-5
• How to Bring in Your Husband the African Way, Translator David Cohen, Psychology Material Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-907-63336-5

References

External links

• "Calixthe Beyala", The Literary Encyclopedia
• "Calixthe Beyala : calligraphy in the margins", Africultures, Landowner Mongo-Mboussa
• "Calixthe Beyala, or the Bookish Success of a Cameroonian Female Living in Paris", Jean-Marie Volet, World Literature Today, Vol.

  67, No. 2 (Spring, 1993), pp. 309–314

• Charles Salé, Calixthe Beyala: analyse sémiotique de Tu t'appelleras Tanga, Williwaw, 2005, ISBN 978-2-7475-9716-6

Further reading