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Congolese writer, playwright, journalist, and politician
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 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.

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Guy Menga" (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  2. "Grand prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire. Liste des lauréats" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-04-14.

Further reading

  • 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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