Olympe Bhely-Quenum

Olympe Bhêly-Quenum (born 20 September 1928) is a Beninese writer, journalist and magazine editor. He is the nephew of anthropologist Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry.

Life and career Born in the city of Ouidah, Benin (formerly Dahomey), Bhêly-Quenum had his primary education in Benin from 1938 to 1944, after which he traveled throughout his native country, Nigeria, his maternal grandmother's country, and Ghana, where he learned English. In 1948, he went to France and undertook his secondary studies at the College Littré, in Avranches, Normandy (Manche).

Works Un piège sans fin (Stock, 1960; 1978). Translated by Dorothy S. Blair as Snares Without End (Longman, 1981) Le Chant du lac (Editions Présence Africaine) Liaison d'un été et autres récits (1968) L'initié (1979) Les Mille Haches (1981) Les Francs-Maçons (1997) La naissance d’Abikou ("Abikou's birth", 1998) C'était à Tigony (2000). As She Was Discovering Tigony, trans. Tomi Adeaga (Michigan State University Press, 2017)