Yodi Karone

Yodi Karone is a pen name, and the civil name that sources give him varies. Born in 1954, of Cameroonian origin, he lives in Paris. He began with theatre, with plays that he published himself in 1978, then moved to fiction: five books appeared between 1980 and 1988, with Karthala, Silex, Nathan and Publisud. The Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire crowned the second of them in 1982, a short narrative followed by stories. Thomas Mpoyi-Bwatu hailed him the following year, in the journal Peuples noirs Peuples africains, as a young Cameroonian writer.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelLe Bal des caïmansYodi Karone · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature