Hemley Boum (born 1973 in

Douala Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital. It is also the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region. Home to Central Africa's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport (DLA), it is the com ...

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) is a Cameroonian writer. She received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire. 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 ...

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and international trade at the

Lille Catholic University Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord ...

. She lives in

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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-daimer

www.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 {{Cameroon-writer-stub