WRITER

Mongo Beti

1932 - 2001

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Alexandre Biyidi Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian author and polemicist. Beti has been called one of the most perceptive French-African writers in his presentations of African life. The Guardian has noted that "Beti must be counted as one of the foremost African writers of the independence generation." Beti spent much of his life in France, studying at the Sorbonne and becoming a professor at Lycée Pierre Corneille. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mongo Beti is the 4,495th most popular writer (down from 3,958th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Cameroon (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Cameroonian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mongo Beti ranks 4,495 out of 7,302. Before him are Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Catherine Millet, Ferenc Karinthy, Léon Damas, Mona Simpson, and Émile Nelligan. After him are Diego Durán, Mykola Khvylovy, Agnes Miegel, Johann Jakob Breitinger, Bhoja, and William of Apulia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Mongo Beti ranks 323. Before him are Francisco Umbral, Otis Davis, Cliff Allison, Albert Collins, Eusébio Scheid, and Clive Davis. After him are Lola Beltrán, Otto Schily, Yash Chopra, Vladimir Yengibaryan, Sergio Toppi, and Sanpei Shirato. Among people deceased in 2001, Mongo Beti ranks 210. Before him are Franco Rasetti, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Nancye Wynne Bolton, Bernard Heuvelmans, and Joe Fagan. After him are Arie van Vliet, Hani Hanjour, R. K. Narayan, Marwan al-Shehhi, Yuri Ozerov, and Dmitry Polyansky.

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In Cameroon

Among people born in Cameroon, Mongo Beti ranks 22 out of 156. Before him are Achille Mbembe (1957), Emmanuel Kundé (1956), Samuel Umtiti (1993), Joseph-Antoine Bell (1954), Ephraïm Inoni (1947), and Rigobert Song (1976). After him are Lauren (1977), Patrick Baudry (1946), Joseph Bessala (1941), Vincent Aboubakar (1992), Ephrem M'Bom (1954), and Jacques Songo'o (1964).

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Among WRITERS In Cameroon

Among writers born in Cameroon, Mongo Beti ranks 1. After him are Francis Bebey (1929), Werewere Liking (1950), Calixthe Beyala (1961), Léonora Miano (1973), and Djaili Amadou Amal (1975).

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