María Nsué Angüe

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María Nsué Angüe (* 1945 or 1948 in Ebebiyín or Bidabidjam , Kié-Ntem , Spanish Guinea ; † January 18, 2017 in Malabo , Equatorial Guinea ) was an Equatorial Guinean writer and journalist .

Life

Youth and education

María Nsué Angüe was born in 1945 in a prison in the northeastern city of Ebebiyín in what was then the Spanish colony of Guinea (now Equatorial Guinea). Her parents, both members of the Fang , were imprisoned for their political views. Her father is said to have been a diplomat.

At the age of eight, she moved to Madrid with her two parents . Angüe completed her schooling there and first studied journalism at the Instituto Lope de Vega . During her studies, she discovered her passion for writing and began writing. She then worked briefly in Addis Ababa before moving back to her home country at the age of 21. Angüe first worked there for a radio station and later for the Ministry of Culture and Education.

Writing activity

In 1985 the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia published their work Ekomo . She was the first woman in Equatorial Guinea to publish a book. The work is about the life and death of a Fang man, told from the perspective of his wife. The work is mostly written in classical standard Spanish and has only a few Guineaisms . Ten years later it was also translated into French under the title “Ekomo au cœur de la forêt guinéenne”. In 2017 SIAL Ediciones (Madrid) published a second edition of Ekomo in the Spanish original.

Angüe also published various poems and short stories at the Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano in Malabo.

María Nsué Angüe lived in Malabo and Madrid and worked as a journalist for Spanish and Equatorial Guinean newspapers.

Private

Angüe was a widow and mother of three children. She died on January 18, 2017 in La Paz de Sipopo Hospital (Malabo).

Works

  • Alfa y Omega y Sombras, en: Antología de la literatura guineana, ed. Donato Ndongo Bidyogo, Editora Nacional, Madrid 1984 (pp. 100-101).
  • Ekomo , UNED, Madrid 1985.
  • Delirios, en: África 2000, number 15, Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano , Malabo 1991 (pp 27-29).
  • Ekomo au cœur de la forêt guinéenne, L'Harmattan, versión francesa traducida por Françoise Harraca, Paris 1995.
  • Cuentos de la Vieja Noa (Relatos) , Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano, Malabo 1999.
  • Adugu, en: Literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial - Antología, ed. Donato Ndongo Bidyogo y Mbaré Ngom Faye, Sial Ediciones, Madrid 2000 (pp. 369–373).
  • Ekomo, 2a edición, Sial Ediciones, Madrid 2007.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b M'Bare Ngom: Angüe, María Nsué . In: Simon Gikandi (Ed.): Encyclopedia of African Literature . Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Miriam Decosta-Willis: Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers . Ian Randle Publ, 2003, ISBN 978-976-637-077-0 , pp. 286 f .
  3. ^ María Nsue Angüe, la abuela cuentacuentos , accessed on April 26, 2017
  4. ↑ GUINEA ECUATORIAL: Fallcimiento de la escritora María Nsue Angüe - Página Oficial del Gobierno de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Joaquin Mbomío Bacheng: Ekomo se fue. Birdlike * Flexible Cultural Creations, March 2, 2017, accessed March 4, 2017 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ GUINEA ECUATORIAL: Fallcimiento de la escritora María Nsue Angüe - Página Oficial del Gobierno de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Angüe, María Nsué
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Equatorial Guinean writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945 or 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebebiyín , Kié-Ntem , Río Muni Region , Spanish Guinea or Bidabidjam , Kié-Ntem , Río Muni Region , Spanish Guinea
DATE OF DEATH 18th January 2017
Place of death Malabo , Equatorial Guinea