Yves-Emmanuel Dogbé

Yves-Emmanuel Dogbé was born in May 1939 in Sa-Kpové, near Aného, and died on 7 November 2004 in Paris. He taught in Porto-Novo from 1959, left in 1967 to study in France, where he defended a thesis, then became a teacher at the Tokoin lycée in Lomé. Arrested at the end of 1976 and held for several months without trial, he went into exile in France and founded there in 1979 a publishing house that bears his father's name. A poet, novelist, essayist and publisher, he left some fifteen books.

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• NovelL'IncarcéréYves-Emmanuel Dogbé · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature