Patrice Nganang
Alain Patrice Nganang (* 1970 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian writer and literary critic.
Life
Nganang studied in his hometown, since 1994 as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and his doctorate at the Free University in Berlin. 1997-1999 he taught in Frankfurt at the Department of German.
1998 doctorate Nganang on the theme of interculturality and editing. Investigation to Soyinka and Brecht with Hans -Thies Lehmann of the Department of Theatre, Film and Media at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He subsequently received a postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG for Berlin.
Since 2000 Nganang lives in the U.S. and worked as an assistant professor at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, since 2007 as a university professor at Stony Brook University in New York State.
Works (selection)
- Histoire d'un enfant Quatr Z'yeux. In 1985.
- Elobi. Of poems. In 1995.
- La Promesse des fleurs. 1997, ISBN 2-7384-4706-6.
- Interculturalism and editing. Investigation to Soyinka and Brecht. iudicium, 1998, ISBN 3-89129-611-8.
- Temps de chien. 1999, ISBN 2-84261-419-4. German: Hundezeiten. Hammer, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-87294-940-3.