Beyala, Calixthe

LC control no.	n 88093930
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ3989.2.B48
Personal name heading	Beyala, Calixthe *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Cameroon
Associated place	France
Birth date	1961
Place of birth	Douala (Cameroon)
Profession or occupation	Novelists
Found in	Her C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée, c1987: title page (Calixthe Beyala) page 4 of cover (b. in Cameroon; lives in Paris) Les lions indomptables, 2010: title page (Calixthe Beyala) jacket (b. 1961 in Cameroon, arrived in France at age 17 for study) Wikipedia, Feb. 18, 2015 (Calixthe Beyala, b. 1961 in Cameroon, novelist who lives in France since 1978; she authored many novels; in 1996 she won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calixthe_Beyala> Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Beyala, Calixthe; fiction writer; born in 1961 in Douala, Cameroon; published her first novel, C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée (The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me) in 1987; became politically involved as president of Collectif Egalité, a French black rights movement founded in 1998; honors the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire (1993), the Prix François Mauriac de l'Académie Française (1994), the Prix Tropique (1994), the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française (1996), and the Grand Prix de l'Unicef (1997))
Associated language	fre