Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard: the writer minister
“Fantasmagories”, 1998 & “Le Palmier-lyre”, 1998, by Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard.
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By: Sayouba Traoré
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Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard is a Brazza-Congolese writer and politician, born December 15, 1938 in Ngoyo, in the town of Pointe-Noire, and died July 4, 2009 in Paris.
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After studying Letters in France, he taught literature at the University of Brazzaville where he became dean of the Faculty of Letters.
From 1975, he was in turn Minister of Higher Education, Culture, Arts and Sports.
In 1997, he became Minister of Hydrocarbons.
He has always known how to reconcile his administrative and political activities with those of poet, short story writer and novelist.
Considered as one of the major voices of French-speaking Africa, Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard has published ten collections of poetry, and obtained various awards.
His poetic activity, deployed over thirty years, gave shape to a deep reflection on art and life, the necessary reconciliation of opposites.
What earned him to become leader of the Congolese cultural movement.
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