Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri (29 April 1954 – 15 November 2010) was the first

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.Décès de Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri
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, she was born at

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. Her mother, a teacher, died when she was six. Angèle studied at

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, earned a ''bac'' from the

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girls' college, then a second ''bac'', in

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translation, from the Institute Lentonnet. She then lived in

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for two years, where she played small roles in

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films and modelled for fashion magazines. She returned to Gabon in 1979, working as a translator and interpreter, and writing her first novel, ''G'amarakano''. The story of the clash between a young girl's desire for material goods and the older generation's

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, it was published in 1983. Her second novel, ''Elonga'' (1986) was about a young

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' encounter with

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upon his return to his mother's country. ''Fureur et cris et femmes'' appeared in 1989. She published her first works under the name Ntyugwetondo Rawiri.

Published works

*''Elonga: roman'' Paris: Silex: L’Harmattan, diffusion, c1986. *''Gʾamèrakano: au carrefour: roman'' Paris: Silex, c1988. *''Fureurs et cris de femme'' Paris: L’Harmattan, c1989.

References

* David E. Gardinier, ''Historical Dictionary of Gabon'', 2nd ed. (The Scarecrow Press, 1994) p. 287

External links

UWA page with novel synopses
1954 births 2010 deaths Gabonese women writers Gabonese novelists People from Ogooué-Maritime Province 20th-century novelists 20th-century women writers 21st-century Gabonese people {{Gabon-writer-stub