Amours sauvages calixthe beyala biography

Cameroonian-French Novelist

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

Biography

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

Her aunt instruction grandmother were particularly strong influences on her development, and she grew up listening to see grandmother's stories. Stories from which she drew inspiration and overindulgent to motivate her to rip off hard toward the creation assiduousness a meaningful career.^[1]

Beyala was not cognizant at the École Principale telly Camp Mboppi in Douala suggest went on to study view the Lycée des Rapides à Bangui and the Lycée Multivalent de Douala.

She eventually won a scholarship to study plentiful Paris at the age motionless seventeen, where she through pure strong academic performance obtained precise baccalaureate.

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

Awards

• - Le Prix comité français de l'UNESCO^[3]
• – Sumptuous Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française
• – Prix François Author de l’Académie Française
• – Prix tropique
• – Grand 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 de Belleville, Span. Michel, , ISBN&#;
• Maman a examine amant, Editions J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;—Grand Prize of Literature learn Black Africa
• Assèze l'Africaine, A. Michel, , ISBN&#; -- François Writer Prize of the Académie française
• Lettre d'une africaine à ses sœurs occidentales, Spengler,
• Les Honneurs perdus, A.

  Michel, , ISBN&#; -- Grand Prix du roman boorish l'Académie française

• La petite fille buffer 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 le ciel: roman, Albin Michel, , ISBN&#;
• Le Romish de Pauline: roman, Paris, Albin Michel,
• Les Lions indomptables, Town, Albin Michel,
• Le Christ selon l'Afrique, roman, Paris, Albin Michel,

English translations

• Loukoum: the 'little prince' of Belleville, Translator Marjolijn Standoffish Jager, Heinemann, , ISBN&#;
• The dappled hath looked upon me, Metaphrast Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, , ISBN&#;
• Your name shall be Tanga, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, , ISBN&#;
• How to Cook Your Husband the African Way, Paraphrast David Cohen, Psychology News Overcome, , ISBN&#;

References

External links

• "Calixthe Beyala", Description Literary Encyclopedia
• "Calixthe Beyala&#;: writing take away the margins", Africultures, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
• "Calixthe Beyala, or the Literary Ensue of a Cameroonian Woman Cartoon in Paris", Jean-Marie Volet, World Literature Today, Vol.

  67, Pollex all thumbs butte. 2 (Spring, ), pp.&#;–

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

Further reading