Guy Menga Explained
| Guy Menga |
| Birth Name: | Gaston Guy Bikoutamenga |
| Birth Date: | 1935 |
| Occupation: | Novelist, playwright, journalist |
| Nationality: | Congolese (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.
Awards
In 1969 he received the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for his novel La Palabre stérile.[2]
Further reading
- Victor Béry, L'enracinement culturel dans l'œuvre de Guy Menga : essai de re-contextualisation, Publibook, Paris, 2006, 289 p. (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)
Notes and References
- Web site: fr . Guy Menga . 2024-05-24.
- Web site: Grand prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire. Liste des lauréats . 2016-04-14 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303001056/http://www.adelf.info/data/documents/Liste-AFRIQ-NOIRE.pdf . dead .
