Olympe Bhêly-Quénum

Olympe Bhêly-Quénum was born on 20 September 1926 in Ouidah, in Dahomey. After years spent in Nigeria and the Gold Coast, he went to France in 1948, studied at the college of Avranches, obtained a degree in classics at Caen, then diplomas in sociology at the Sorbonne, and taught in lycées in Normandy and the Paris region. From 1962 to 1964 he directed an African magazine published in Paris, founded another with his wife, then worked at UNESCO from 1968 to 1988. He received the grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1966 and celebrated his hundredth birthday in September 2026.

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• NovelSnares Without EndUn piège sans finOlympe Bhêly-Quénum · 1960Literature