Guillermina Mekuy
{{Short description|Equatoguinean writer (born 1982)}}
{{Hatnote|This name uses Equatoguinean Fang naming customs: his surname is Mekuy, his father's surname is Mba and his mother's surname Obono. The surnames are chosen by their respective parents.}}
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| name = Guillermina Mekuy
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| caption = Mekuy in 2013
| birth_name = Guillermina Mekuy Mba Obono{{Cite web|url=https://www.guineaecuatorialpress.com/noticias/guillermina_mekuy_mba_obono_presenta_su_libro_%E2%80%9Ctres_almas_para_un_corazon%E2%80%9D|title=Guillermina Mekuy Mba Obono presenta su libro "Tres almas para un corazón"}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1982|6|25}}
| birth_place = Evinayong, Equatorial Guinea
| other_names = "The Dior Minister"
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| partner = Ignacio Palomo
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| nationality = Equatoguinean
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Guillermina Mekuy Mba Obono (born 25 June 1982) is an Equatoguinean writer and politician who became a minister.
Life
Mekuy was born in 1982 in Evinayong and she spent six years in that country before she went to live in Madrid with her family{{Cite web |date=2017-02-10 |title=Guillermina Mekuy Mba-Obono |url=https://www.casafrica.es/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=Casafrica |language=es}} as her father, who was a Guinean diplomat, had been given an assignment to Spain.{{Cite magazine |date=2017-10-26 |title=La historia de amor de la ministra africana y el ginecólogo de la jet española |url=https://www.revistavanityfair.es/la-revista/articulos/guillermina-mekuy-expolitica-ginecologo-ignacio-palomo/26868 |access-date=2024-03-03 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=es-ES}}
Her first novel, El llonto de la Perra,{{Cite book |last=Mekuy |first=Guillermina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F8p-AAAACAAJ&q=El+llanto+de+la+Perra+makeup |title=El llanto de la perra |date=2005 |publisher=Plaza Janés |isbn=978-84-01-33557-0 |language=es}} was published when she was seventeen. She graduated from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Law and Political Science. In 2008, her second novel, Las Tres Vírgenes de Santo Tomás (Three Souls for the Heart) was published.{{Cite book |last=Mekuy |first=Guillermina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ta0qAQAAMAAJ |title=Las tres vírgenes de Santo Tomás |date=2008 |publisher=Suma de Letras |isbn=978-84-8365-047-9 |language=es}} This erotic novel attracted some critical evaluation.{{Cite book |last=Ellison |first=Mahan L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYE6EAAAQBAJ&q=mekuy&pg=PA113 |title=Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990–2010 |date=2021-08-19 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-7936-0743-0 |language=en}} The novel includes the subject of polygamy which Mekuy is opposed to - she says that she expects loyalty from her partner.
When she was 25 she accepted the position of head of her country's museums and libraries that was offered by the long serving President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. In 2009 her country's national library, {{ill|Biblioteca Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial|es}}, opened and Mekuy was its first director. In 2010 the 34-minute film Teresa was released. It is a film about three teenagers and Mekuy wrote the script. It was directed by Juan Pablo Ebang Esono.{{Cite web |title=Teresa {{!}} Film 2010 {{!}} Moviepilot |url=https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/teresa--2 |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=moviepilot.de |language=de}}
In 2011 she published Tres Almas Para Un Corazón.{{Cite book |last=Mekuy |first=Guillermina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDsXGctdxDYC&q=guillermina+mekuy |title=Tres almas para un corazón |date=2011-05-05 |publisher=Grupo Planeta Spain |isbn=978-84-270-3780-9 |language=es}}
In 2013 Equatorial Guinea announced a new kind of government separated into two houses. Mekuy was announced as one of the 100 senators in the upper house.{{Cite web |title=Equatorial Guinea News |url=https://equatorial73.rssing.com/chan-10813942/all_p4.html |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=equatorial73.rssing.com}} She was announced as a minister of culture in 2016. She was known for dressing in designer outfits and she was nicknamed "The Dior Minister".
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Category:People from Evinayong
Category:21st-century Equatoguinean politicians