Calixthe Beyala

Calixthe Beyala is a French writer E , of origin Cameroun ease. It was born in 1961 with Douala with the Cameroun.

Biography

Calixthe Beyala was born in a family low in 1961 with Douala with the Cameroun. It is his/her older sister who raises it and puts it at the school. At seventeen years it gains the France, there Marie, passes her vat for then carrying out studies of management and letters. It has two children.

At twenty-three years, she writes its first book. Its work of writer E collected since many distinctions, in spite of some judgments for Plagiat. She is recognized guilty of this offense in 1996 ( the Small Prince de Belleville copy a novel of Howard Buten). Paule Constant, whose passages of White Spirit are included in Assèze African the , refuses to continue it to avoid making him publicity.

It also engaged for many causes: the Collective Equality for the right of the visible minorities in France, the Fight against AIDS, the promotion of the Francophonie, the House of the people of Africa… It is member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence.

In the man who offered the sky to me, it describes his relation disappointed with Michel Drucker.

Works

  • It is the sun which burned me , 1987;

  • You will be called Tanga , 1988;
  • Seul the Devil knew it , 1990 = the red-headed Negress , 1991;
  • the small prince de Bellevile , 1992;
  • Maman has a lover , 1993, Literary Grand Prix of the Black Africa;
  • Asséze African the , 1994, price François Mauriac of the French Academy;
  • Letter of African with his/her Western sisters , 1995;
  • lost Honors , 1996, Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy;
  • the little girl of the reverberator , 1997, Grand Prix of UNICEF;
  • wild Loves , 1999;
  • Letter of a Afro-Frenchwoman to her compatriots , 2000;
  • How to cook his/her husband with African the , 2000;
  • the trees still speak about it… , 2002;
  • Nude woman, black woman , 2003;
  • the plantation , 2005.
  • the man who offered the sky to me, 2007.

External bonds

  • Bio-bibliography of Calixthe Beyala
  • Entretien in connection with “It is the sun which burned me”
  • Entretien with " Amina"
  • Article of “Humanity”
  • Lettre of a compatriot
  • “the trees still speaks”
  • Official site about it about Calixthe Beyala
  • : explanation on the man who offered the sky
to me

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