Hemley Boum (born 1973 in
Douala,
Cameroon
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) is a Cameroonian writer.
She received the
Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
The Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire (one of the major literary prizes of Black Africa for Francophone Literature) is a literary prize presented every year by the ADELF, the Association of French Language Writers for a French original text ...
. She won the
Prix Les Afriques in 2016.
Boum studied Social Sciences at the
Catholic University of Central Africa
The Catholic University of Central Africa (Université Catholique de l'Afrique Centrale) (CUAC or UCAC) is a private Roman Catholic university in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
History
CUAC was founded in 1989 by the Association of the Episcopal Conference o ...
in
Yaoundé and international trade at the
Lille Catholic University. She lives in
Paris
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with her husband and their two children.
Works
* ''Le Clan des femmes'', Paris, L'Harmattan, " Écrire l'Afrique ", 2010
* ''Si d'aimer…'', Ciboure, La Cheminante, 2012
* ''Les maquisards'', Ciboure, La Cheminante, 2015
* ''Les jours viennent et passent'', Paris, Gallimard, 2019, (Translation in Dutch: ''De dagen komen en gaan'', 2020, )
External links
www.lacheminante.fr/si-daimerwww.lacheminante.fr/les-maquisards
References
1973 births
Cameroonian women
Cameroonian women writers
Cameroonian writers in French
Living people
Cameroonian women novelists
People from Douala
Cameroonian emigrants to France
Cameroonian novelists
21st-century Cameroonian writers
21st-century Cameroonian women writers
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