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René Maran (5 November 1887 – 9 May 1960) was a French poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt (in 1921). Biography.
Batouala is a 1921 novel by French writer René Maran, which follows an African chieftain named Batouala over a few days of his life.The novel won the Prix Goncourt, one of France's highest literary awards, making Maran the first black author to win that honor.
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In 1921, Rene Maran won the Goncourt with Batouala, veritable roman negre, the first French novel to openly criticize European colonialism in Africa. [11] The novel caused "violent reactions" and was banned in all the French colonies.
René Maran (1887–1960) Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) Adrien Bertrand (1888–1917) Henri Bosco (1888–1976) Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945), author of Gilles and The Fire Within; Louis Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961), author of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan or Mort à Crédit; Rose Celli (1895–1982)
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Kojo Tovalou Houénou (born Marc Tovalou Quénum; 25 April 1887 – 13 July 1936) was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo (a French protectorate in present-day Benin) to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of the Kingdom of Dahomey, he was sent to France for education at the age of 13.
René Maran, born near Martinique (1887–1960) Chantal Magalie Mbazo'o-Kassa (born 1967) Nadia Origo (born 1977) Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri (1954–2010) Gambia.