Patrice Nganang
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| Alain Patrice Nganang | |
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| Born | 1970 Yaoundé, Cameroon |
| Occupation | Writer, Poet and Teacher |
| Nationality | Cameroonian |
Alain Patrice Nganang (born 1970) is a Cameroonian writer, poet and teacher.
He was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon and was educated in Cameroon and Germany.[1] He was awarded a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.[2] During 2006–2007 he was the Randolph Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies at Vassar College.[3] He was an instructor at the Shippensburg University until 2007,[4] and is now an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University.[5] His 1999 novel Temps de chien was awarded the Prix Littéraire Marguerite Yourcenar in 2001 and the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2002.[6]
Bibliography
- La Promesse des fleurs, 1997 (ISBN 2-7384-4706-6)
- Temps de chien, 1999 (ISBN 2-84261-419-4); trans. in English, Dog Days, 2006 (ISBN 0-8139-2535-5)
- La Joie de vivre, 2003 (ISBN 2-84261-439-9)
- Dernières nouvelles du colonialisme, 2006 (ISBN 2-911412-40-0)
- L’Invention du beau regard, 2005 (ISBN 2-07-077271-3)
- Mont Plaisant, 2011 (ISBN 978-2--84876-177-0)
- La Saison des prunes, 2013
Essays
- Le principe dissident, 2005 (ISBN 9956-435-00-7)
- Manifeste d'une nouvelle littérature africaine, 2007 (ISBN 2-915129-27-4)
- L'Afrique répond à Sarkozy - Contre le discours de Dakar, ouvrage collectif, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-84876-110-7)
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External links
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Categories:
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- 1970 births
- Cameroonian poets
- Male poets
- Living people
- People from Yaoundé
- Goethe University Frankfurt alumni
- Vassar College faculty
- Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Cameroonian novelists
- Cameroonian male writers
- Male novelists
- Cameroonian essayists
- Stony Brook University faculty
- 20th-century poets
- 20th-century novelists
- 21st-century poets
- 21st-century novelists
