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Cameron, K. René Maran, c1985: CIP t.p. (René Maran) galley (b. 11/8/1887 in Fort-de-France, Martinique; d. 5/9/60)

LC data base, 10-5-84 (hdg.: Maran, René, 1887-1960)

Wikipedia, Feb. 16, 2015 (René Maran; French Guyanese poet and novelist; first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt, 1921, for his novel Batouala; lived in Fort-de-France until age 7, then in Gabon, where his father was in the colonial service; attended boarding school in Bordeaux, France; joined the French colonial service in French Equatorial Africa, which experience served as the basis for many of his novels)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed February 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Maran, René; poet, fiction writer, social reformer; born 1887 in Fort-de-France, Martinique; accepted a low-ranking position in Bangui, Ubangi-Shari; best remembered for his novel Batouala: Veritable Roman Nègre, published in 1921; won the Prix Goncourt which was never before won by a black novelist; accepted from the Vichy-dominated French Academy the Broquette-Gonin Prize; published a rather hagiographic biography of his old friend Félix Eboué, who had played a major role in this recruitment effort (1957); died in 1960 in France)