Nadège Noële Ango Obiang, born on December 20, 1973, in

Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ...

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

is a Gabonese writer. Her literary works include short stories, drama, romance, pictures, scripts and poetry. Obiang has a university degree in

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

. She combines the two professions of being a writer and an economist.

Career

She received her first prize at the age of 17 for her poem ''Rien tout nuit'' , during the 6th Komo poetic recital in Gabon on April 26, 1991. In 1997, she won the Poetry Prize at

Omar Bongo University Omar Bongo University (French: ''Université Omar Bongo'') a public university which was founded as the National University of Gabon in 1970. It was renamed in honor of President Omar Bongo in 1978. It is based in Libreville, and was the country' ...

while she was in her second year of pursuing her economics degree. In 2000, she won the special Jury Prize of the BICIG contest as a friend of the arts and letters, for her new novel ''L'amour dans deux visages''. The same year, with her song ''Le chant des naufrages'', she won the silver hibiscus poetry contest of the Union of Gabonese Writers (known in French as l'Union des Écrivains Gabonais (UDEG)). This turn of events led to her putting together a publication of a collection of poems which she published in 2001.

References

1973 births Living people Gabonese writers People from Libreville Omar Bongo University alumni 21st-century Gabonese people 21st-century Gabonese women {{Gabon-bio-stub