Olympe Bhely-Quenum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Beninese writer and journalist
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Place of Birth: Ouidah, Atlantique Department, Benin
About Olympe Bhely-Quenum
- Olympe BhĂȘly-QuĂ©num (born 20 September 1928) is a Beninese writer, journalist and magazine editor.
- He is the nephew of anthropologist Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry.Born in Ouidah, Benin (formerly Dahomey), BhĂȘly-QuĂ©num had his primary education in Benin from 1938 to 1944, after which he traveled throughout his native country, Nigeria, his maternal grandmother's country, and Ghana, where he learned English.
- In 1948 he went to France and undertook his secondary studies at the College Littré, in Avranches, Normandy (Manche).
- He worked as a teacher and trained as a diplomat, before turning to journalism.
- He was Editor-in-Chief and then Director of an African magazine entitled La Vie Africaine until 1964.
- He subsequently joined UNESCO in Paris. He is the author of several works of fiction published in French.
- He won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for Le Chant du lac in 1966.
- His first novel Un PiĂšge Sans Fin (1960) was translated into English as Snares Without End (Longman, 1981) and has been called "an un-put-downable tragedy".
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