Houseboy (novel)

Houseboy
1966 English language edition
AuthorFerdinand Oyono
Original titleUne vie de boy
LanguageFrench
Published1956 (1956)
Publication placeCameroon

Houseboy is a novel in the form of a diary written by Ferdinand Oyono, first published in 1956 in French as Une vie de boy (Paris: René Julliard)[1] and translated into English in 1966 by John Reed for Heinemann's African Writers Series.[2]

  1. ^ Translations Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine, Oyono Project.
  2. ^ Felix Awung, "Agency in translating Une Vie de Boy into English: Exploring translator identity and translation strategies", Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol. 43, 2014, 17–30; doi: 10.5842/43-0-156.