Andrée Clair

Andrée Clair (born May 6, 1916 in France , † 1982 ibid; actually Renée Jung ) was a French writer .

Life

Andrée Clair grew up in a Paris suburb. Her father was an inspector in the postal, telegraph and telephone administration. After attending school, she studied at the Institute for Ethnology at the Sorbonne . She specialized in sub-Saharan Africa and graduated with a License ès lettres . Clair worked as a critic of children's books and books about sub-Saharan Africa as well as an editor at the Présence Africaine publishing house . She worked in the Sub-Saharan Africa department of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris , then as an ethnological assistant at the Institute for Central African Studies in Brazzaville , followed by a position as a professor in Chad . She visited nine countries in West and Equatorial Africa , where she often found work as a teacher.

Clair wrote numerous books for children and young people, most of which are set in Africa. She has also published poems and non-fiction books on Africa. She had a special relationship with Niger . Boubou Hama , the longtime President of the National Assembly of Niger , was the co-author of several of her books. From 1961 to 1974 she was a functionary at the Nigerien presidential office of President Hamani Diori , most recently as a cultural advisor. Clair participated in conferences on Niger and Black Africa as well as on children's and youth literature and published articles on these topics in several journals. When Hamani Diori was overthrown in a military coup in 1974, she had to give up her post as cultural advisor. Clair returned to France, where she initially lived in Paris and then retired in Dreux .

Works

• Moudaïna ou Deux enfants au coeur de l'Afrique . Bourrelier, Paris 1952.
• Bemba . Bourrelier, Paris 1955.
• Le Mur gris de toutes les couleurs . Bourrelier, Paris 1955.
• Eau ficelée et ficelle de fumée. Contes recueillis au Tchad et au Cameroun par l'auteur . La Farandole, Paris 1957.
• Aminatou . La Farandole, Paris 1959.
• Le fabuleux empire du Mali . Présence Africaine, Paris 1959.
• Tchinda. La petite soeur de Moudaïna . Bourrelier, Paris 1959.
• Bakari, enfant you Mali . Présence Africaine, Paris 1959.
• Dijé . La Farandole, Paris 1961.
• Rejoignons Moudaïna! Bourrelier, Paris 1961.
• Les découvertes d'Alkassoum . La Farandole, Paris 1964.
• Le Niger. Pays à découvrir . Hachette, Paris 1965.
• La Babiroussa ... et les autres. Poemes . Istra, Paris 1965.
• Le Niger indépendant, fraternité, travail, progrès . ATEOS, Paris 1966.
• Nicole au quinzième étage . La Farandole, Paris 1969.
• Nicole et l'ascenseur . La Farandole, Paris 1971.
• L'aventure d'Albarka . With boubou hama. Julliard, Paris 1972.
• Issilim . Bourrelier, Paris 1972.
• La Savane enchantée . With boubou hama. La Farandole, Paris 1972.
• L'Afrique . With Claude Bourdet, Jean Suret-Canale and Boubou Hama. With a foreword by Léopold Sédar Senghor . Ed. du Burin, Paris 1973.
• Farfelettis. Comptines . L'École des loisirs, Paris 1973.
• Nicole in le grand pré . La Farandole, Paris 1973.
• Le Baobab merveilleux . With boubou hama. La Farandole, Paris 1974.
• Kangourourimes. Comptines . L'École des loisirs, Paris 1974.
• Kangué izé . With boubou hama. La Farandole, Paris 1974.
• Safia et le fleuve . La Farandole, Paris 1974.
• Les deux étoiles. Un conte . Dessain et Tolra, Paris 1975.
• Escargotiques. Comptines . L'École des loisirs, Paris 1975.
• Founya-le-vaurien . With boubou hama. Editions GP, Paris 1975.
• Marc et Nathalie. La chat verte . Nathan, Paris 1976.
• Marc et Nathalie. Quelques grains de poivre . Nathan, Paris 1976.
• Marc et Nathalie. A la neige . Nathan, Paris 1976.
• Marc et Nathalie. Les quatre inconnus . Nathan, Paris 1976.
• Nicole ne voit plus rien . La Farandole, Paris 1975.
• Nicole and Djamila . La Farandole, Paris 1976.
• Safia et le puits . La Farandole, Paris 1976.
• Safia et le jardin . La Farandole, Paris 1976.
• Les fameuses histoires du village de Tibbo . With boubou hama. La Farandole, Paris 1977.
• Nicole et l'étoile de mer . La Farandole, Paris 1978.
• L'Amour d'Aïssatou . Duculot, Paris 1979.
• Galzé et Soun, le sorcier. Conte du Nord-Cameroun . La Farandole, Paris 1980.
• Un, deux, trois . La Farandole, Paris 1980.
• Niger, fleuve du Sahel . Messidor, Paris 1982.
• Les Vélodingues. Poemes . La Farandole, Paris 1982.
• Le petit lièvre, l'éléphant et le chameau . With boubou hama. Kaléidoscope, Paris 1992.

literature

• Andrée Clair: Pourquoi et pour qui j'écris? In: Enfance . Numéro spécial: les livres pour enfants, 1956, p. 73-78 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jean-Marie Volet: Clair Andrée. The University of Western Australia, September 14, 1996, accessed March 5, 2015 (French). 
2. ^ ^{A b} Clair, Andrée. Kaléidoscope, accessed March 5, 2015 (French). 
3. ^ Clair, Andrée (1916-1982). In: IdRef. Retrieved March 5, 2015 (French).