Johnnie MacViban
| Johnnie MacViban | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 1955 |
| Occupation | Writer, Poet, Journalist and Teacher |
| Nationality | Cameroonian |
| Genre | Poetry, Fiction, Journalism |
| Literary movement | Modernism, Postmodernism |
Johnnie MacViban (born 1955) is a Cameroonian journalist, poet and novelist educated in the International School of Journalism and the International Communication Institute, Montreal (Canada).
Life and career
As a news analyst, he has worked with Cameroon Tribune and CRTV and was incarcerated on 26 July 1986 alongside Sam Nuvalla Fonkem and Ebssy Ngum for airing over the radio a story on multi-party politics titled The Enemies of Democracy on Cameroon Calling. They were later released five months later in November of the same year.[1][2]
In 1994, he won the Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry for the National Library of Poetry [3] and his novel A Ripple from Abakwa was shortlisted for EduART's Jane and Rufus Blanshard Award for fiction.[4]
Bibliography
- An Anecdoted View. Yaounde: Subsidy, 2004.
- An Anecdoted Patchwork. Garoua: Subsidy, 2006.
- The Makuru Alternative. Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 2007.
- A Ripple from Abakwa. Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 2008.
- The Mwalimu’s Reader (A Collection of Critical Journalistic Essays). Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011.
Essays and articles
- “Low Ebb for Cameroon Cinema" Bakwa magazine, December 2011.
References
- ↑ Index On Censorship: Volume 15, Issue 10, 1986
- ↑ Johnnie MacViban. The Mwalimu's Reader.Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011
- ↑ Ann Arbor Review of Books:1.7, 2013
- ↑ http://www.eduartawards.org/2011/05/johnnie-macviban-johnnie-macvibanhas-been-shortlisted-for-the-jane-and-rufus-blanshard-award-for-fiction-forhisnovelripples.html
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