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Gad Ami is the pseudonym of Amivi Gadegbeku (born 1958), a French-language novelist from Togo. [1] She was the first woman novelist in Togo. [2]
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Gad Ami is the pseudonym of Amivi Gadegbeku (born 1958), a French-language novelist from Togo. [1] She was the first woman novelist in Togo. [2]
In 2001 she moved to live in the United States.
Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books, was the director of Le Figaro from 1974 to 1977, as well as the dean of the Académie Française, to which he was elected in 1973, until his death, in addition to his service as president of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies within UNESCO (1992–1997).
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