Calixthe Beyala
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Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian-born French writer who writes in French.
She grew up in Douala with her sister. In 1978, she left Cameroon for France. She married, and has two children.[1]
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Awards
- 1996 Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française
- 1994 Prix François Mauriac de l’Académie française
- 1994 the Prix tropique
- 1993 Grand prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire[2]
Controversies
On March 31, 2011, Beyala was one of the few intellectuals to express support for Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.[3]
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 Bellevile, A. Michel, 1992, ISBN 978-2-226-05934-5
- 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 Mauriac 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 de l'Académie française
- La petite fille du 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
English translations
- Loukoum: the 'little prince' of Belleville, Translator Marjolijn De Jager, Heinemann, 1995, ISBN 978-0-435-90968-0
- The sun hath looked upon me, Translator 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
References
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 978-2-7475-9716-6
Further reading
- Hitchcott, Nicki, Calixthe Beyala: Performances of Migration, Liverpool University Press, December 2006, ISBN 978-1-84631-028-7
Categories:
- Cameroonian novelists
- Cameroonian women writers
- 1961 births
- Living people
- People from Douala
- French people of Cameroonian descent
- Grand Prix du Roman winners
- French women novelists
- 20th-century French novelists
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century French novelists
- 21st-century women writers
- Cameroonian emigrants to France