Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard

Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard was born in 1938 in Ngoyo, near Pointe-Noire, and completed his secondary education at the Lycée Chaminade in Brazzaville. Having obtained a degree in modern literature and Italian at Bordeaux, he returned in 1966 to teach at the centre of higher studies in Brazzaville, which he directed, as he did the École supérieure des lettres. Minister of Higher Education in 1975, then of Culture and the Arts until 1991, he returned to government in 1997 as Minister of Hydrocarbons, a post he still held at his death, near Paris, in July 2009.

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• PoetryL'Envers du soleilJean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature