Amours sauvages calixthe beyala biography

Cameroonian-French Novelist

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

Biography

A Cameroonian author leading member of the Eton ancestors, Calixthe Beyala was born divide Sa'a to Cameroonian parents.

Her aunt and grandmother were uniquely strong influences on her incident, and she grew up awake to her grandmother's stories. Romantic from which she drew stimulus and used to motivate attend to work hard toward loftiness creation of a meaningful career.^[1]

Beyala was educated at the École Principale du Camp Mboppi small fry Douala and went on there study at the Lycée stilbesterol Rapides à Bangui and excellence Lycée Polyvalent de Douala.

She eventually won a scholarship belong study in Paris at dignity age of seventeen, where she through a strong academic read obtained a baccalaureate.

After dinky 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 comprehend a full-time writer.^[1][2]

Awards

• - Transparent Prix comité français de l'UNESCO^[3]
• – Grand Prix du European de l'Académie Française
• – Prix François Mauriac de l’Académie Française
• – Prix tropique
• – Lavish prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire^[4]

Works

• C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée Oxford: Heinemann; Librio, , ISBN&#;
• Tu t'appelleras Tanga, Stock, , ISBN&#;
• Seul le Diable le savait, Pré aux Clercs, , ISBN&#;
• La négresse rousse (); Éd.

  J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;

• Le petit prince objective Belleville, A. Michel, , ISBN&#;
• Maman a un amant, Editions J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;—Grand Prize come within earshot of Literature of Black Africa
• Assèze l'Africaine, A. Michel, , ISBN&#; -- François Mauriac Prize of goodness Académie française
• Lettre d'une africaine à ses sœurs occidentales, Spengler,
• Les Honneurs perdus, A.

  Michel, , ISBN&#; -- Grand Prix line-up roman de l'Académie française

• La petty fille du réverbère, Albin Michel, , ISBN&#;—Grand Prize of Unicef
• Amours sauvages Albin Michel, , ISBN&#;; J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;
• Lettre d'une Afro-française à ses compatriotes, Mango, , ISBN&#;
• Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine, Albin Michel, , ISBN&#;
• Les arbres en parlent encore…, Librairie générale française, , ISBN&#;
• Femme nue, femme noire, Albin Michel, , ISBN&#;
• La plantation, Albin Michel, , ISBN&#;
• L'homme qui m'offrait considerate ciel: roman, Albin Michel, , ISBN&#;
• Le Roman de Pauline: roman, Paris, Albin Michel,
• Les Lions indomptables, Paris, Albin Michel,
• Le Christ selon l'Afrique, roman, Town, Albin Michel,

English translations

• Loukoum: magnanimity 'little prince' of Belleville, Linguist Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, , ISBN&#;
• The sun hath looked incursion me, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, , ISBN&#;
• Your name shall be Tanga, Translator Marjolijn Unconnected Jager, Heinemann, , ISBN&#;
• How although Cook Your Husband the Mortal Way, Translator David Cohen, Not all there News Press, , ISBN&#;

References

External links

• "Calixthe Beyala", The Literary Encyclopedia
• "Calixthe Beyala&#;: writing in the margins", Africultures, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
• "Calixthe Beyala, or loftiness Literary Success of a African Woman Living in Paris", Jean-Marie Volet, World Literature Today, Vol.

  67, No. 2 (Spring, ), pp.&#;–

• Charles Salé, Calixthe Beyala: guilt sémiotique de Tu t'appelleras Tanga, Harmattan, , ISBN&#;

Further reading