Guy Menga

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Guy Menga
BornGaston Guy Bikoutamenga
1935
OccupationNovelist, playwright, journalist
NationalityCongolese (Republic of the Congo)

Guy Menga (born Gaston Guy Bikoutamenga in 1935) is a novelist, playwright, and journalist from the Republic of the Congo. He directed the African section of Radio France Internationale in 1990[1] and later became a minister in the government of André Milongo from June 1991 to January 1992.[1]

Awards[edit]

In 1969, he received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for his novel La Palabre stérile.[2]

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Guy Menga" (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  2. ^ "Grand prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire. Liste des lauréats" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-14.

Further reading[edit]

  • Victor Béry, L'enracinement culturel dans l'œuvre de Guy Menga : essai de re-contextualisation, Publibook, Paris, 2006, 289 p. ISBN 2-7483-3117-6 (revised thesis)
  • Jean-Paul Ntsoulamba, Oralité et écriture romanesque : étude comparative axée sur trois romans congolais : 1° “La Légende de M'Pfoumou Ma Mazono”, by Jean Malonga; 2° “La Palabre stérile”, by Guy Menga; 3° “Le Pleurer-rire”, by Henri Lopès, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 1993, 389 p. (thesis)

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