List of Beninese writers
Encyclopedia
- Christine Adjahi GnimagnonChristine Adjahi Gnimagnon-Publications:*Do Massé : Contes fons du Bénin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. . ISBN 2-7475-3351-4.*Le Forgeron magicien. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. . ISBN : 978-2-296-04976-5....
, also connected with Senegal - Berte-Evelyne Agbo, also connected with Senegal
- Colette Senami Agossou HouetoColette Senami Agossou HouetoColette Sénami Agossou Houeto is an educator and a feminist poet. She attended the University of Strasbourg and later the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. In Benin she served as Director of the National Institute of Training and Research into Education from 1977 to 1981. She also wrote a...
(1939-) - Ryad Assani-Razaki (1981-)
- Francis Aupiais, born in France (1877-1945)
- Olympe Bhêly-QuenumOlympe Bhely-QuenumOlympe Bhêly-Quénum is a Beninese writer and journalist.Born in Ouidah, Benin, Bhêly-Quénum won the Grand prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire for Le Chant du lac in 1966.-Works:* Le Chant du lac...
- Florent Couao-ZottiFlorent Couao-ZottiFlorent Couao-Zotti is a writer of comics, plays, and short stories, who lives in Cotonou, Benin. He is fond of employing the short-story as a form. He is also editor of several satirical magazines and a cultural columnist.-Publications:...
(1964-) - Félix Couchoro, also connected with Togo (1900-1968)
- Richard DogbehRichard DogbehRichard Dogbeh was a novelist and educator. He served as Benin's Directeur de Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education from 1963 to 1966...
, also connected with Togo, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire (1932-2003) - Adelaide FassinouAdelaide FassinouAdelaide H. Edith Bignon Fassinou is a Beninese writer and Benin's General Secretary for UNESCO. She has written four novels in French. Her married name is Allagbada.-Publications:...
(1955- ) - Gisèle Hountondji (1954- )
- Paulin J. HountondjiPaulin J. HountondjiPaulin Hountondji is a Beninese philosopher and politician.Hountondji was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, graduating in 1966, and taking his doctorate in 1970...
(1942-) - Béatrice Lalinon GbadoBéatrice Lalinon GbadoBéatrice Lalinon Gbado is a children's writer from Benin.She has written 31 children's books published by éditions Ruisseaux d'Afrique and EDICEF .She is married with four children.She is director of Edition Ruisseaux d’Afrique....
- Paulin JoachimPaulin JoachimPaulin Joachim is a Beninese poet, journalist, and editor. He was educated in several places including Lyon and by 1971 was a French citizen. He also worked with French poet Philippe Soupault. His two volumes of poetry are Un nègre raconte in 1954 and Anti-grâce in 1967...
(1931- ) - Lauryn, also connected with Côte d'Ivoire and Togo, born in FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
(1978-) - Hortense Mayaba
- M.H.A. Menondji, also connected with France (1976-)
- Jean PliyaJean Pliya- Life :Born in what was then Dahomey, Pliya was educated at the University of Dakar and then the University of Toulouse. He graduated from the second in 1957 and in 1959 returned to his homeland to teach. He went on to hold ministerial positions in the Benin government.- Work :His work often...
(1931-) - José PlivaJosé PlivaJosé Pliya is an actor, stage director, and playwright from Benin. In 2003 he won the Young Writers' Award from the Académie française.-References:...
(1966-)