René Maran

René Maran was born on 5 November 1887 in Fort-de-France, to Guyanese parents; his father, a colonial civil servant, later left for Gabon. A pupil at the lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux, he entered the colonial administration of French Equatorial Africa and served for more than ten years in Ubangi-Shari, at Bangui, Grimari and Fort-Crampel. He left the administration in 1923 for journalism and writing, and denounced colonial abuses. He died in Paris on 9 May 1960.

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• NovelBatouala: A True Black NovelBatouala, véritable roman nègreRené Maran · 1921Literature