Gad Ami

{{Short description|Togolese writer}}

{{BLP sources|date=March 2021}}

Gad Ami is the pseudonym of Amivi Gadegbeku (born 1958), a French-language novelist from Togo.{{Cite web |title=Gad Ami |url=https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/GadAmi.Eng.html |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=University of Western Australia – Department of French Studies}} She was the first woman novelist in Togo.{{cite web | title=Une interview de Gad Ami, auteure du premier roman de la littérature féminine togolaise, Étrange héritage (1986) | website=Togo Queens | url=http://togoqueens.com/post--une-interview-de-gad-ami--auteure-du-premier-roman-de-la-litterature-feminine-togolaise--etrange-heritage--1986---948-1 | date=6 September 2019 | access-date=6 February 2021 | archive-date=31 August 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831154027/https://togoqueens.com/post--une-interview-de-gad-ami--auteure-du-premier-roman-de-la-litterature-feminine-togolaise--etrange-heritage--1986---948-1/ | url-status=dead }}

Life

In 2001 she moved to live in the United States.

Works

  • Etrange héritage: roman [Strange heritage: a novel]. Lomé: Nouvelles Editions africaines, 1985. {{ISBN|978-2723609319}}
  • La croix de la mariée: roman [The bride's cross: a novel]. Cotonou, République du Bénin: Les Éditions du Flamboyant: Émeraude Éditions, 2014. {{ISBN|978-9991959504}}

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