117:, into an average family of ten children. She obtained various scholarships, which enabled her to get an education after gaining her baccalaureate, and she pursued higher education in English-speaking studies, in metropolitan France starting at age 18. For seven years, she worked in the biophysics laboratory at the
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as a young woman in 1983, which so moved her as a witness to history, she became convinced that she would do the same, as an author. Between Europe, Africa, America and the
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The work that best exemplifies this concept is her science fiction trilogy, The
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Vision de l’aurore de félicité (collection of poems)
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