Draft:Timba Bema

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• Comment: This needs some more work on it. The notability guideline is WP:NAUTHOR and that can be met with "2 books, 2 book reviews each". Those reviews need to be fully independent, so not commissioned by the publishers, and can be negative reviews. Currently there is insufficient sourcing. In addition 3 of the sources do not work / 404. ChrysGalley (talk) 17:53, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Timba Bema is a Cameroonian writer born in Bali, a neighbourhood in the city of Douala.^[1]

He has lived and worked in Lausanne since 2007^[2].He is qlso the founder of the Review of Citizens of Letters. In April 2022, Timba Bema published the book saving the city^[3] with "éditions des Sables."

La maladie sans nom^[4], Les lettres mouchetées, 2024 ISBN 2487254092

• Sauver la ville, édition des sables, 2022 ISBN 978-2-940530-97-7
• Flashs, Aphorèmes, Brest, Editions Stellamaris, 2021 ISBN 978-2-36868-683-6
• Les bateaux sombrent-ils en silence ?, Variation poétique, Brest, Editions Stellamaris, 2019 ISBN 978-2368684917
• Les seins de l'amante, Poème, Brest, Editions Stellamaris, 2018 ISBN 978-2368684610

• • La promise, dans le recueil Filiation, Editions Proximité, Yaoundé, Cameroun, 2020
  • Délices d'Orient,^[2] Le Courier, Genève, Suisse, 2020
  • Onirique et lointain, ce Brésil imaginaire^[5], Actualitté, Paris, France, 2019
  • Somme toute une banale histoire d'amour^[6], Actualitté, Paris, France, 2019
  • Idabato^[7], dans le recueil Tourbillon, Les éditions Encres Fraîches, Genève, Suisse, 2018
  • La future mariée était presque parfaite^[8], dans le recueil Un soir de pluie, Les éditions Encres Fraîches, Genève, Suisse, 2017
  • Accident^[9], Smokelong Quarterly, Washington, États-Unis, 2016. Traduit en anglais par Michelle Baillat-Jones