Edna Merey-Apinda (Libreville, September 11, 1976) is a Gabonese writer. [1]
Edna Merey-Apinda grew up in Port-Gentil with her six siblings, her mother was a midwife and her father was an administrative assistant. She took her baccalauréat in France, where she studied commerce in Toulouse.
She currently lives in Port-Gentil, where she works in an oil company.
in October 2011, one of her short story was translated in German for an Austrian magazine, under the title "Es regnet auf die Stadt".
Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.7 kilometres from the centre of Paris.
Jean Ping is a Gabonese diplomat and politician who served as Chair of the African Union Commission from 2008 to 2012. Born to a Chinese father and Gabonese mother, he is the first individual of Chinese descent to lead the executive branch of the African Union.
Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri was the first Gabonese novelist.
Marcel Conche, is a French philosopher, emeritus professor at the Sorbonne University (Paris).
The Battle of Gabon, also called the Gabon Campaign, occurred in November 1940 during World War II. The battle resulted in forces under the orders of General de Gaulle taking the colony of Gabon and its capital, Libreville, from Vichy France, and the rallying of French Equatorial Africa to Free France.
Adélaïde 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.
Josyane de Jesus Bergey is a Franco/Portuguese poet.
Hélène Dorion, is a Canadian poet, and writer.
Roselyne Sibille is a French poet who was born on June 28, 1953 in Salon-de-Provence (France). She studied geography, and then worked as a librarian before running creative writing workshops. She lives in Provence where she writes on her approach to the human being in connection with self and nature. She leads writing workgroups for the association "Share horizons"(Partage d'horizons). She has been organizing writing workshops in the Sahara Desert for the association "Wind's friend".
Josepha Laroche is a French professor of political science, specializing in international relations. She is professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where she is Director of the master's program of research in international relations, and is also researcher at the UMR 201 Développement et sociétés. She was also Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris from 2004 to 2009.
Sergine Andre, born in the Artibonite region of Haiti, is a Haitian-Belgian artist, who has lived and worked in Brussels since 2010.
Nelly Kaplan was an Argentine-born French writer and film director who focused on the arts, film, and filmmakers. She studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires. Passionate about cinema, she abruptly put her studies on hold to go to Paris to represent the new Argentine film archive at an international convention and later became a correspondent for different Argentine newspapers. She met Abel Gance in 1954, who gave her the opportunity to work on the film La tour de Nesle.
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Marie-Cessette Dumas (1714–1786) was an enslaved woman in the French colony of Saint Domingue. She was the mother of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the grandmother of novelist Alexandre Dumas, and the great-grandmother of playwright Alexandre Dumas, fils, and has been called a "great matriarch to a saga of distinguished men". She was a female slave of African descent owned by the Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de La Pailleterie. They lived at a plantation called La Guinaudée near Jérémie of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, until Antoine's departure in 1775.
Bestine Kazadi Ditabala,, is a Congolese writer.
Jacqueline Assaël is a French Hellenist and a professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis since 2004. She is also an essayist and poet.
Honorine Ngou is a Gabonese writer and academic.
Ovida Delect was a French poet, Communist, politician and member of the French resistance during the Second World War. She was also a trans woman and wrote a two volume autobiography about her life, in which she identified similarities between her own experience and that of Christine Jorgensen. Delect starred in a documentary, which brought the experiences of trans women into the wider canon of women in French film.
Nadia Origo is a French-Gabonese writer and editor.
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