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Calixthe Beyala

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Cameroonian writer

WritersBorn 1961 · age 64
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Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French.

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Calixthe Beyala
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What must the child of the doughnut seller have been thinking on that fateful day? Perhaps he thought that in the end, it was all just a big farce?

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Calixthe Beyala
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The desacralization of school in Cameroon: yet another injustice.

Calixthe Beyala denounces an elitist staging during a thesis defense at the university

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Calixthe Beyala
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I was forced to become a queen in a man’s world.

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Awards 6

2010Knight of the Legion of Honour
1996Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
1995Prix François-Mauriac
1994Grand prix littéraire en poésie d'Afrique noire
1994Prix Tropiques
Order of Valour

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About this person

Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
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Dates
Born 1961 · age 64
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