Bate Besong

Bate Besong

Nesans	8 me 1954 Calabar
Lanmò	8 mas 2007 (ak 52 ane)
Nasyonalite	kamewounè
Peyi nesans	Kamewoun

Bate Besong, ki fèt 8 me 1954 nan Calabar epi ki mouri 8 mas 2007 nan Kamewoun, te yon otè pyès teyat, powèt ak kritik kamewounè.

Biyografi

Li te dekri pa Pierre Fandio kom “youn nan ekriven yo ki pi reprezantan ak regilye nan sa ki ta ka refere yo kòm jenerasyon an dezyèm nan literati a émergentè Kamewoun nan lang angle". Li mouri 8 mas 2007 nan yon aksidan machin nan otowout Douala-Yaounde.

Zèv li yo

Liv

• Polyphemus Detainee and Other Skulls. Calabar : Scholars Press, 1980.
• The Grain of Bobe Ngom Jua. Yaounde : A Drapoe Publication, 1986.
• The Most Cruel Death of the Talkative Zombie. Limbe : Nooremac Press, 1986.
• Beasts of No Nation. Limbe : Nooremac Press, 1990.
• Obasinjom Warrior with Poems after Detention. Limbe : Alfresco, 1991.
• Requiem for the Last Kaiser. Calabar: Centaur Publishers, 1991.
• The Banquet: A Historical Drama. Markudi Nigeria : Edisyon Ehi, 1994.
• Just Above Cameroon: Selected Poems 1980-1994. Limbe: Presbook Printing Press, 1998.
• Change Waka and his Man Sawa Boy. Cameroon: Edisyon Cle, 2001.
• Three Plays. Yaounde : Cle, 2003.
• Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus and Emanya-nkpe Collected Poems. Limbe: Design House, 2007.

Esè ak atik

• Literature in the Season of the Diaspora: Notes to the Anglophone Cameroonian Writer Nalova Lyonga, Bole Butake, Eckhard Breitinger (ed) Anglophone Cameroon Writing. Bayreuth: RFA/Germany. 5 – 18, 1993
• Who’s Afraid of Anglophone Theatre I & II. London: West Africa, 7 – 3 July pp 1106 – 1107, 14–20 July 1146,1997.
• The Limits of a Manichean Vision and the Egoist Hero in Post Colonial Bourgeois Theatre : Epasa Moto: A Bilingual Journal of Language and Literatures. University of Buea. Vol. 1. No. 479 – 98, 2001.
• Ontogenesis of Modern Anglophone Cameroon Drama and its Criticism: Excursus : VOICES The Wisconsin Review of African Languages and Literatures. University of Wisconsin 1414 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, W1537306 Vol. 1 No. 5 1–19, 2002.
• L’Ecrivain est mort: Alas, Poor Ferdinand (Son Excellence Leopold Oyono) USA: ALA Bulletin A Publication of the African Literature Association. Vol. 28 No. 2 Spring 119–124.