Barnabé Laye

Barnabé Laye, whose registered name was Barnabé Laleye, was born in 1941 in Porto-Novo. A pupil at the Père-Aupiais college in Cotonou, he went to study medicine in France, in Bordeaux then in Paris, and spent his whole career as a hospital doctor at the Pitié-Salpêtrière. Coming to poetry in adolescence, he published collections from 1981, then novels from 1988, with Seghers then with L'Harmattan. He died in 2024.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelUne femme dans la lumière de l'aubeBarnabé Laye · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature