Charline Patricia Effah (born 1977) is a
Gabonese writer and educator living in
Paris.
The daughter of a lawyer and a school teacher, she was born in
Minvoul and grew up 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.
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. She took part in theatre at Théâtre Express there.
A story "La prière du petit Maquisard" received an award in a contest for young authors. In the same year, her poem "Eldorado" won a contest sponsored by the program ''Le cœur et la Plume''. She obtained a master's degree in Modern Literature in 2000 and then earned a doctorate at the
University of Lille in 2008. She is working as a teacher in Paris.
In 2015, she received the award of merit for literature at the Nuit des Mérites Africain.
Selected works
* ''Percées et chimères'', novel (2011)
* ''N'être'', novel (2014)
* ''La Danse de Pilar'', novel (2018)
* ''Les Femmes de Bidibidi'', novel (2023)
References
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1977 births
Living people
Gabonese women writers
Gabonese novelists
21st-century Gabonese people