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A Cameroonian author and member of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents. Her aunt and grandmother were particularly strong influences on her development, and she grew up listening to her grandmother's stories.
Calixthe Beyala, née le 26 octobre 1961 à Douala au Cameroun [1], est une romancière franco-camerounaise [2]. Elle reçoit le Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française en 1994 pour son roman Les Honneurs perdus .
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Calixthe Beyala 1961- Cameroonian novelist, short story writer, and essayist. INTRODUCTION. At once admired and reviled in contemporary literary circles, Beyala is a highly controversial African francophone novelist; her works have been both awarded major literary prizes and judged to contain plagiarized passages from other fictional works.
Calixthe Beyala left Cameroon aged seventeen and arrived in France where she studied, married, had two children and published numerous novels. In 1996 she was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française.
Calixthe Beyala. (b. 1961) Quick Reference. (b. l961), Cameroonian novelist, essayist, and feminist. Calixthe Beyala was born shortly after Cameroon became independent from France. The sixth of twelve children, she obtained her early education in Cameroon ... From: Beyala, Calixthe in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History »
Calixthe Beyala. Biography. Calixthe Beyala was born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1961. She was brought up by an older sister who sent her to school. When she was seventeen she went to France, where she married and passed her baccalauréat. She has lived in Malaga and Corsica but now lives in Paris with her two children.
Hitchcott pays equal attention to Beyala’s novels, tracing their explorations of the role of migration in the creation of personal identity. The most successful female writer from Francophone Africa, Calixthe Beyala occupies an unusual place in French literary and popular culture.
