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Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian writer who writes in French. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ...

Biography

Calixthe Beyala was born into a poor family in Douala, Cameroon. Her older sister raised her and sent her to school. At age 17, she went to France to marry. She finished her baccalaureate in letters. She has two children. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

At 23, she wrote her first book. Her writing has received numerous awards and distinctions, and also condemnations for plagiarism. She was deemed culpable of this crime in 1996 (Le Petit Prince de Belleville copies a novel by Howard Buten). Paule Constant, whose passages of White Spirit were incorporated into Assèze l'Africaine, has refused to prosecute in order to avoid giving publicity to Beyala.

Beyala is also engaged in a number of causes: the collectif Égalité, the fight against AIDS, the promotion of francophonie, the house of the African peoples. She is a member of the sponsoring committee of the French coordination of the Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... The Francophonie is an international organisation of French-speaking countries and governments. ... An UN Decade On November 10th, 1998, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first decade of the 21st century and the third millenium, the years 2001 to 2010, as the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World...

Works

• C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée (1987)
• Tu t'appelleras Tanga (1988)
• Seul le Diable le savait (1990)
• La négresse rousse (1991)
• Le petit prince de Bellevile (1992)
• Maman a un amant (1993), Grand Prize of Literature of Black Africa
• Asséze l'Africaine (1994), François Mauriac Prize of the Académie française
• Lettre d'une africaine à ses sœurs occidentales (1995)
• Les Honneurs perdus, Grand Prize for Novel of the Académie française
• La petite fille du réverbère (1997), Grand Prize of Unicef
• Amours sauvages (1999)
• Lettre d'une Afro-française à ses compatriotes (2000)
• Les arbres en parlent encore… (2002)
• Femme nue, femme noire (2003)
• La plantation (2005)

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External links

• The Literary Encyclopedia page on Calixthe Beyala
• Article, "Neither Here nor There: Calixthe Beyala's Collapsing Homes" by Ayo Abiétou Coly, from Research in African Literatures (33: 2)

Further Reading

• Hitchcott, Nicki, Calixthe Beyala: Performances of Migration [1]