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Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is
Calixthe Beyala (born ) is a CameroonianFrench writer who writes in French. A member of the Eton people, she was born in Sa'a to a Cameroonian mother and father. She was raised by her maternal grandmother.M Michel Drucker Married BIOGRAPHY. Born in in Douala, Calixthe Beyala is an ´Eton from Saa, situated about seventy-two kilometers from Yaounde, the capital city of Cameroon. In the early years of her life, Beyala lived with her Cameroonian mother and Central African stepfather in the Republic of Central Africa.
Calixthe Beyala is one of the most controversial figures on the contemporary African literary scene, and she is also one of the most prolific francophone writers of African origin. She has published twelve novels and two essays in major French publishing houses and has been awarded several prizes, such as the.
Calixthe Beyala was born in Cameroon in She spent her childhood in Douala with one of her sisters, four years older than herself. Calixthe Beyala left Cameroon aged seventeen and arrived in France where she studied, married, had two children and published numerous novels.