Nathalie ETOKE An author from Cameroon writing in French

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Nathalie Etoké was born on the 20th of June 1977 in Paris. Born into a family of four children, her father is a solicitor and her mother a company lawyer in Douala. The family returned to Cameroon in 1978 where Nathalie lived until August 1995. She then spent five years in Lille where she obtained a Masters degree in modern literature. In 2001, Nathalie left France for the USA and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where, in June 2006, she graduated with a PhD in French. She is now (2007) a visiting assistant professor in the Department of French Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Publications

Un amour sans papiers. Paris: Editions Cultures Croisées, 1999 (118p.). ISBN 2-913059-03-1. Novel
A female Cameroonian student takes us into the world of students and African immigrants. She makes us share the helplessness, the anger, the crises of conscience and the dreams of a young African girl in search of happiness. Through her love for a young man, an illegal immigrant, she finds herself at the heart of the struggle of the "sans-papiers". And so, her romantic journey becomes a moving and poignant testimony to the life and the difficulties of the damned of modern society.

Je vois du soleil dans tes yeux. Yaoundé: Presses de l'Université catholique d'Afrique centrale, 2008. (196p.). ISBN: 2-84849-032-2. Novel. [available at www.amazon.com].

"Bessombè : Between Homeland and Exile". In King, Adèle, (ed.) From Africa - New francophone stories. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004, pp.125-129. Short story in English.

Editor (jvolet@cyllene.uwa.edu.au)
The University of Western Australia/French
Created: 11-Feb-2000
Modified: 13-Feb-2008
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