Angèle Rawiri

Angèle Ntyugwétondo Rawiri (born April 29, 1954 in Port-Gentil , French Equatorial Africa , † November 15, 2010 in Paris , France ) was a Gabonese writer .

Life

Angèle Rawiri was born on April 29, 1954 in the port city of Port-Gentil in what was then the French colony of Equatorial Africa (today Gabon, among others) as the daughter of the politician and writer Georges Rawiri . Her mother, who worked as a teacher, died six years later.

Rawiri moved to France to attend school there. First she attended the Vanves girls' school in Alès and graduated with a first Abitur (Bac). She completed a second Abitur with a focus on English translation at the Lentonnet Institute. Rawiri then lived in London for two years , where she had small acting appearances and temporarily worked as a model .

In 1979 Rawiri returned to her homeland and worked as a translator and interpreter for the Gabonese Société nationale de pétrole . She also began to work as a writer. During that time, Rawiri also wrote her first novel, G'amarakano , published in 1983. This makes her the first female writer in Gabon.

This was followed in 1986 by the second plant, Elonga . Rawiri published both novels under her middle name, Ntyugwétondo Rawiri, to show her ties to her Gabonese homeland. She then left Gabon for good and moved to Paris, where she published Fureur et cris et femmes in 1989.

Rawiri died in Paris on November 15, 2010.

Works

1983: Elonga
1986: Gʾamèrakano: au carrefour
1989: Fureurs et cris de femme

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Emergence of the Gabonese Novel . In: Cheryl Toman (Ed.): Women Writers of Gabon . Lexington Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4985-3720-9 .
↑ ^a ^b Angèle RAWIRI. In: africultures.com. Retrieved November 13, 2016 (French, undated).
↑ Elen Turner: Gabon's first woman novelist explores feminist themes. In: Warscapes.com. March 10, 2015, accessed November 13, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rawiri, Angèle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rawiri, Angèle Ntyugwétondo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Gabonese writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Port Gentil , French Equatorial Africa
DATE OF DEATH	November 15, 2010
Place of death	Paris , France

[toman-1] Emergence of the Gabonese Novel . In: Cheryl Toman (Ed.): Women Writers of Gabon . Lexington Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4985-3720-9 .

[africultures-2] Angèle RAWIRI. In: africultures.com. Retrieved November 13, 2016 (French, undated).

[3] Elen Turner: Gabon's first woman novelist explores feminist themes. In: Warscapes.com. March 10, 2015, accessed November 13, 2016 .