Calixthe Beyala
Encyclopedia
Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroon
ian writer who writes in French
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She grew up in Douala
with her sister. In 1978, She left Cameroon for France. She married, and has two children.
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Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...
ian writer who writes in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
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She grew up in Douala
Douala
Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. Home to Cameroon's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport, it is the commercial capital of the country...
with her sister. In 1978, She left Cameroon for France. She married, and has two children.
Awards
- 1996 Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie FrançaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
- 1993 Grand prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire
- 1994 Prix François Mauriac de l’Académie française
- 1994 the Prix tropique
Controversies
On March 31, 2011, Beyala was one of the few intellectuals to express support for Libyan dictator Muammar GaddafiMuammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Gaddafi or "September 1942" 20 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi or Colonel Gaddafi, was the official ruler of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the "Brother Leader" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011.He seized power in a...
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Works
- C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée 1987 Oxford: Heinemann; Librio, 1997, ISBN 9782277301653
- Tu t'appelleras Tanga, Stock, 1988, ISBN 9782234021426
- Seul le Diable le savait, Pré aux Clercs, 1990, ISBN 9782714424761
- La négresse rousse (1991); Éd. J'ai lu, 1997, ISBN 9782290046012
- Le petit prince de Bellevile, A. Michel, 1992, ISBN 9782226059345
- Maman a un amant, Editions J'ai lu, 1993, ISBN 9782290313770—Grand Prize of Literature of Black Africa
- Asséze l'Africaine, A. Michel, 1994, ISBN 9782226069986 -- François MauriacFrançois MauriacFrançois Mauriac was a French author; member of the Académie française ; laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature . He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur .-Biography:...
Prize of the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,... - Lettre d'une africaine à ses sœurs occidentales, Spengler, 1995
- Les Honneurs perdus, A. Michel, 1996, ISBN 9782226086938 -- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie françaiseGrand Prix du roman de l'Académie françaiseLe Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1918, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France...
- La petite fille du réverbère, Albin Michel, 1998, ISBN 9782226095916—Grand Prize of Unicef
- Amours sauvages Albin Michel, 1999, ISBN 9782226108180; J'ai lu, 2000, ISBN 9782290309025
- Lettre d'une Afro-française à ses compatriotes, Mango, 2000, ISBN 9782842702328
- Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine, Albin Michel, 2000, ISBN 9782226116765
- Les arbres en parlent encore…, Librairie générale française, 2004, ISBN 9782253067764
- Femme nue, femme noire, Albin Michel, 2003, ISBN 9782226137906
- La plantation, Albin Michel, 2005, ISBN 9782226158352
- L'homme qui m'offrait le ciel: roman, Albin Michel, 2007, ISBN 9782226177155
English Translations
- Loukoum: the 'little prince' of Belleville, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1995, ISBN 9780435909680
- The sun hath looked upon me, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1996, ISBN 9780435909512
- Your name shall be Tanga, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1996, ISBN 9780435909505
External links
- "Calixthe Beyala", The Literary Encyclopedia
- Article, "Neither Here nor There: Calixthe Beyala's Collapsing Homes" by Ayo Abiétou Coly, from Research in African Literatures (33: 2)
- "Calixthe Beyala : writing in the margins", Africultures, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
- "Calixthe Beyala, or the Literary Success of a Cameroonian Woman 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, Harmattan, 2005, ISBN 9782747597166
Further reading
- Hitchcott, Nicki, Calixthe Beyala: Performances of Migration, Liverpool University Press, December 2006, ISBN 9781846310287