Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Tété-Michel Kpomassie (* 1941 in Atoëta near Aného ) is a Togolese writer .
Kpomassie was in his home for snake cult priests been predetermined and fled because of a snake phobia of Europe . Fascinated by the life of the Inuit , in 1965 he went on a 16-month trip to Greenland , the only snake-free country in the world, with the savings he had invested for this purpose . His arrival there caused a sensation: Radio Godthåb reported a man with “hair like black wool”. After all, he lived there with the local Inuit and went hunting with them.
In 1981 Kpomassie received the Prix Litteraire Francophone International for the sometimes strange description of this cultural clash .
Fonts
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L'Africain du Groenland , Flammarion, Paris 1981
- German: An African in Greenland. From the French by Anna Müther. Zsolnay, Vienna / Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-552-03430-7 ; as TB at Piper, ISBN 3-492-10620-X
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Tété-Michel Kpomassie in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kpomassie, Tété-Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Togolese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atoëta at Aného |