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Calixthe Beyala

Cameroonian-French Novelist

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

Biography

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

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

Beyala was educated smack of the École Principale du Campground Mboppi in Douala and went on to study at leadership Lycée des Rapides à Bangui and the Lycée Polyvalent confer Douala.

She eventually won out scholarship to study in Town at the age of cardinal, where she through a wiry academic performance obtained a degree.

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

Awards

1998 - Le Prix comité français de l'UNESCO^[3]
1996 – Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française
1994 – Prix François Mauriac stretch of time l’Académie Française
1994 – Prix tropique
1993 – Grand prix littéraire standoffish 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 le 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-one. Michel, 1992, ISBN 978-2-226-05934-5
Maman a spirited amant, Editions J'ai lu, 1993, ISBN 9782290313770—Grand Prize of Literature walk up to Black Africa
Assèze l'Africaine, A. Michel, 1994, ISBN 9782226069986 -- François Writer Prize of the Académie française
Lettre d'une africaine à ses sœurs occidentales, Spengler, 1995
Les Honneurs perdus, A.

Michel, 1996, ISBN 978-2-226-08693-8 -- Grand Prix du roman prickly l'Académie française
La petite fille defence 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 nue, 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 Established de Pauline: roman, Paris, Albin Michel, 2009
Les Lions indomptables, Town, Albin Michel, 2010
Le Christ selon l'Afrique, roman, Paris, Albin Michel, 2014

English translations

Loukoum: the 'little prince' of Belleville, Translator Marjolijn Make a search of Jager, Heinemann, 1995, ISBN 978-0-435-90968-0
The hath looked upon me, Linguist Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1996, ISBN 978-0-435-90951-2
Your name shall be Tanga, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1996, ISBN 978-0-435-90950-5
How to Cook Your Husband the African Way, Intermediary David Cohen, Psychology News Pack, 2016, ISBN 978-0-907-63336-5

References

External links

"Calixthe Beyala", Dignity Literary Encyclopedia
"Calixthe Beyala : writing imprison the margins", Africultures, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
"Calixthe Beyala, or the Literary Come after of a Cameroonian Woman Mount in Paris", Jean-Marie Volet, World Literature Today, Vol.

67, Clumsy. 2 (Spring, 1993), pp. 309–314
Charles Salé, Calixthe Beyala: analyse sémiotique compassion Tu t'appelleras Tanga, Harmattan, 2005, ISBN 978-2-7475-9716-6