Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard

Infobox Writer
name = Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard

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birthdate = 15 December 1938
birthplace = Pointe-Noire, Congo
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occupation = Politician
nationality = Congolese
period = 1968–
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subject = Poetry
movement = the human condition
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Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard (born 15 December, 1938) is a politician and poet from Republic of the Congo. He has been a minister for Higher Education, Arts and Culture and Minister of State for Hydrocarbons.. He has published numerous books of his own poetry and literature in general. [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J797sJx4sLoC&pg=PA319&dq=tati+loutard&lr=&ei=CdnESMemJoyYyATwlKiRDg&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U2SaJXm9mDsF_GjlbjEOFIjeQgTDQ Who's who in Twentieth-century World Poetry] , Mark Willhardt, 2000, ISBN 0415163552]

Biography

Tati Loutard was born in 1938 in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire and attended the Chaminade High School and the Marianist school in Brazzaville the capital of the Congo. [http://afrique.kongotimes.info/news/357/ARTICLE/4570/2008-07-13.html Profile] , KongoTimes, 13 July 2008] He obtained degrees in modern literature in 1964 and in Italian in 1964 at the University of Bordeaux. Tati Loutard returned to Brazzaville in 1966 to teach at the "Centre for Graduate Studies". [http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/tati.htm Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard, Congo (1938 – )] ] , George A. Smathers Libraries, accessed 1 September 2008] He published "Poèmes de la Mer" in 1968 and continued to publish regularly. His teaching career progressed and Tati-Loutard obtained the post of director of both the School of Humanities and the Center for Higher Education in Brazzaville. [http://www.colby.edu/french/fr128/vacoit/vie.htm Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard et les droits des femmes] , [http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.colby.edu/french/fr128/vacoit/vie.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Jean-Baptiste%2BTati-Loutard%2Ba%2Bfait%2Bses%2B%25C3%25A9tudes%2Bau%2Blyc%25C3%25A9e%2BChaminade%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dcom.google:en-US:official%26hs%3Dprr%26sa%3DG translation] , Colby College, Maine, accessed 1 September 2008]

Tati Loutard joined the Congolese cultural movement and became Minister of Higher Education in 1975; he was subsequently Minister of Culture and Arts from 1977 to 1992. [http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_16146.html Tati Loutard] , African Development Information Services] After a period teaching he returned to the Government in 1997 as Minister of State for Hydrocarbons.

In 1984 he was chosen with only two other poets, Tchicaya U Tam’si and Emmanuel Dongala to repesent the poetry of his country in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry.

In 1986, Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard was described as the "outstanding poet of his generation". [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gt07FgJovZEC&dq=%22+Jean-Baptiste+Tati+Loutard%22+1938&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa] , Albert S. Gérard, p.584, 1986, ISBN 9630538334] Tati-Loutard won several awards for his works. He won the Prix des Lettres African Alioune Diop in 1982 for "New Congolese Chronicles" and the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry in 1987 for "The Tradition of Dreams" and in 1987 he also won the Black Africa Literary Grand Prix for "The Story of Death". He has also published short stories in "Congolese Chronicles" in 1974. The stories discuss issues such as cronyism, corruption, prostitution, unemployment and problems of immigration. In 1979, he published "New Congolese Chronicles" in which he analyzes the transfer of Congolese society after independence.

Tati-Loutard has received numerous awards for his writings. He won the "Prix des Lettres African Alioune Diop" in 1982 for "New Congolese Chronicles" and the "All Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry" in 1987 for "The Tradition of Dream" and in 1987 he also won the Black Africa Literary Grand Prix for "The Story of Death".

In 2008 he became chairman of the African Petroleum Producers Association "Council of Ministers" and his country's representative at that body.

Published works

Poetry

* 1968 — Poèmes de la Mer, ("Poems of the Sea")
* 1968 — Les Racines congolaises, ("The Congolese Roots"),
* 1970 — L’Envers du Soleil, ('The Hidden face of the sun")
* 1974 — Les Normes du Temps, ("The Standards of time")
* 1977 — Les Feux de la Planète,
* 1982 — Le Dialogue des Plateaux,
* 1985 — La Tradition du Songe, ("The Tradition of Thinking"), Paris
* 1992 — Le Serpent austral,
* 1996 — L’Ordre des Phénomènes,
* 1998 — Le Palmier-lyre,
* 1998 — (included in) [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=00WaWr1tViIC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%22Jean-Baptiste+Tati+Loutard%22&source=web&ots=hLcNC_4wdC&sig=yrIxgAr0tk-u98I_4uNfYkKFZyQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA31,M1 The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry] [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=00WaWr1tViIC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=%22Jean-Baptiste+Tati+Loutard%22&source=web&ots=hLcNC_4wdC&sig=yrIxgAr0tk-u98I_4uNfYkKFZyQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA31,M1 The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry] , p. 60–67, By Various, Gerald Moore, Ulli Beier, ISBN 0141181001, accessed 1 September 2008]
* 2007 — Oeuvres poétiques, Présence Africaine

Other publications

* 1976 — Anthologie de la littérature congolaise,
* 1977 — Les Feux de la planète,
* 1980 — Nouvelles chroniques Congolaises,
* 1987 — Le Récit de la mort, ("The Story of Death")
* 1998 — Fantasmagories,
* 2003 — Nouvelle Anthologie de la littérature congolaise,

Accolades

*1987 — Prix pour la poésie Toute l'Afrique Okigbo, for "La Tradition du Songe "
*1987 — Black African Literary Grand Prix for "Le Récit de la Mort"
*1982 — Prix des Lettres Africaines Alioune Diop, for "Nouvelles Chroniques Congolaises" {"New Congolese Chronicles"}
*1982 — Prix Simba, for l'ensemble de son oeuvre

External links

* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gt07FgJovZEC&dq=%22+Jean-Baptiste+Tati+Loutard%22+1938&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa] , Albert S. Gérard, p. 584, 1986, ISBN 9630538334

References