Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang

Nadège Noële Ango Obiang
Born	December 20, 1973 Libreville
Nationality	Gabon
Occupation	Writer

Nadège Noële Ango Obiang, born on December 20, 1973, in Libreville in Gabon is a Gabonese writer.^[1] Her literary works include short stories, drama, romance, pictures, scripts and poetry.^[2][3] Obiang has a university degree in Economics. She combines the two professions of being a writer and an economist.^[4]

Career

She received her first prize at the age of 17 for her poem Rien tout nuit , during the 6th Komo poetic recital in Gabon on April 26, 1991.^[5]

In 1997, she won the Poetry Prize at Omar Bongo University while she was in her second year of pursuing her economics degree. In 2000, she won the special Jury Prize of the BICIG contest as a friend of the arts and letters, for her new novel L'amour dans deux visages. The same year, with her song Le chant des naufrages, she won the silver hibiscus poetry contest of the Union of Gabonese Writers (known in French as l'Union des Écrivains Gabonais (UDEG)). This turn of events led to her putting together a publication of a collection of poems which she published in 2001.^[6]

References

1. "Nadège Noële Ango Obiang". aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
2. "Nadège Noèlle Ango Obiang: une plume prolixe". La plume et les mots du Gabon (in French). Retrieved November 15, 2017.
3. "Premier Salon Du Livre Gabonai de Paris@". Scribd. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
4. "Profil de Nadège Noële A." (in French). DocsenStock. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
5. "The Union Newspaper". The Union. April 1991.
6. Walker, Raponda (2000). "Grand prix de la poésie, 2000. Le service de coopération et d'action culturelle". UDEG. UDEG.