Nadia Origo

Nadia Origo was born in Mouila, southern Gabon, in 1977.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Nadia Origo|url=https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/OrigoNadiaEng.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=The University of Western Australia}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Nadia Origo|url=https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/OrigoNadiafr.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329084733/https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/OrigoNadiafr.html|archive-date=2020-03-29|access-date=2021-01-29|website=The University of Western Australia|language=fr}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=J'ai résolu de.... : roman|url=https://mukanda.univ-lorraine.fr/s/mukanda/item/71661|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=MuKanda|language=fr}} Her birth name was Nadia Busugwu.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2008-08-27|title=Nadia Origo|url=http://www.acoria.net/Interview%20de%20Nadia%20Origo.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113004844/http://www.acoria.net/Interview%20de%20Nadia%20Origo.pdf|archive-date=2008-11-13|access-date=|website=Propos d'Ecrivains|language=fr}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2009-08-13|title=Nadia Origo: Gabegie et Indigestion Collaterable|url=http://azokhwaunblogfr.unblog.fr/2009/08/13/nadia-origo-gabegie-et-indigestion-collaterale/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=La plume et les mots du Gabon|language=fr}}

She moved to France around 2005, where she studied geography at the University of Montpellier.{{Cite web|last=D|first=Herel|date=2019-11-03|title=Nadia Origo|url=https://www.onditquoimag.com/nadia-origo/|access-date=2021-01-29|website=On Dit Quoi Magazine|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite book|last=Toman|first=Cheryl|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953630892|title=Women writers of Gabon : literature and herstory|publisher=|year=2016|isbn=978-1-4985-3720-9|location=Lanham, Maryland|pages=|oclc=953630892}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=African Studies|url=https://artsci.case.edu/ethnicstudies/concentrations/african-studies/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=Case Western Reserve University|language=en-US}} She then obtained a doctoral degree from Paris-Sorbonne University, settling in Paris thereafter.

Origo is primarily a novelist, as well as an editor.{{Cite web|last=Cana|first=Franck|date=2015-05-26|title=Dans " La valse des initiés ", Nadia Origo tend la main à ceux qui s'égarent dans le mal|url=http://revistamito.com/dans-la-valse-des-inities-nadia-origo-tend-la-main-a-ceux-qui-segarent-dans-le-mal/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=Mito {{!}} Revista Cultural|language=fr}} Her novels frequently include autobiographical elements.

She is considered part of the contemporary generation of Gabonese women writers. Like others of her generation, her work is influenced by the writing of Angèle Rawiri.{{Cite book|last=Gray, Richard J., 1971-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/879584246|title=Francophone African poetry and drama : a cultural history since the 1960s|date=9 September 2014 |isbn=978-0-7864-7558-2|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|oclc=879584246}}{{Cite book|last1=Rawiri|first1=Ntyugwetondo|last2=Hanaburgh|first2=Sara|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864505248|title=The fury and cries of women|year=2014 |isbn=978-0-8139-3602-4|location=Charlottesville|oclc=864505248}}

Her first novel, Le voyage d'Aurore, was published in 2007. It was followed by several other novels, including J'ai résolu de...., Le bal des débutants, and La valse des initiés. She also produced a book of poetry, Sanglotites équatoriales, in 2014.

In 2012, her short story "Le long courrier d'une amie" was featured in Les lyres de l'Ogooué, a collection of work by Gabonese women writers, alongside Edna Merey-Apinda, Charline Effah, and others.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Collectif Les lyres de l'Ogooué|url=https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/merey_lyres2012.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=The University of Western Australia|language=fr}}

Origo founded the publishing house La Doxa Éditions in Paris in 2008, with the aim of giving social justice-focused African writers a venue to publish their work in Europe. She subsequently founded Reflets Magazine in 2010. The two efforts are now housed under a parent company run by Origo, called OrigraphCom.

In 2019, Origo published a book on her experience as a Christian entrepreneur, titled Entreprendre c'est faire la guerre.{{Cite web|date=2019-05-01|title=Nadia Origo, l'éditrice à la plume de serial entrepreneure|url=http://otitiwinners.com/tapis-rouge/nadia-origo-leditrice-a-la-plume-de-serial-entrepreneure/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-29|website=OtitiWinners|language=fr-FR}} Her first novel, Le voyage d'Aurore, was translated into English by Aquene Kimmel and published under the title Aurore's Journey in 2020.{{Cite journal |last=Ferreira-Meyers |first=Karen |date=2021 |title=Aurore's Journey by Nadia Origo (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/820023 |journal=Women in French Studies |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=197–198 |doi=10.1353/wfs.2021.0028 |s2cid=240407992 |issn=2166-5486}}{{Cite book |last1=Jayasuriya |first1=Shihan de Silva |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5xvEAAAQBAJ |title=Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage |last2=Pereira |first2=Mariana Pinto Leitão |last3=Hansen |first3=Gregory |date=2022-05-10 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-8135-7 |language=en}}

• Le voyage d'Aurore (2007)
• J'ai résolu de.... (2008)
• Le bal des débutants (2012
• La valse des initiés (2014)
• Sanglotites équatoriales (2014)
• Entreprendre c'est faire la guerre (2019)

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Category:1977 births

Category:Gabonese women writers

Category:Gabonese novelists

Category:Gabonese expatriates in France

Category:Paris-Sorbonne University alumni

Category:University of Montpellier alumni

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Category:21st-century Gabonese people

Category:21st-century Gabonese women