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Lopes, Henri, 1937-2023


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    • Lopes, Henri, 1937-

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    • Birth Date

        1937-09-12

    • Death Date

        2023-11-02

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Congo (Brazzaville). Ambassade (France)

    • Descriptor

        Authors, Black

    • Birth Place

        Kinshasa (Congo)

    • Birth Place

        Leopoldville (Congo)

    • Associated Language

        French

    • Occupation

      Congo (Brazzaville). Prime Minister (1973-1975 : Lopes)

      (lcsh) Congo (Brazzaville)--Officials and employees

      Public officers

      Prime ministers

      Diplomats

      Ambassadors

      Authors

      Poets

      Novelists

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      • Earlier Established Forms

        • Lopes, Henri, 1937-

      • Sources

        • found: Author's Tribaliques, 1971.
        • found: Le méridional, 2015:title page (Henri Lopes) page 4 of cover (Congolese novelist; author of Tribaliques)
        • found: Bibliothèque nationale de France WWW auth. file, May 12, 2015(hdg.: Lopes, Henri, 1937- ; b.: 1937, Léopoldville (Congo belge) ; nat.: Congo (Brazzaville) ; Poet and novelist; Prime Minister of the People's Republic of the Congo (1973-1975); Assistant General Director of UNESCO, in charge of culture and communication)
        • found: Wikipedia, August 1, 2016(Henri Lopès (born 12 September 1937) is a Congolese writer, diplomat, and political figure. He was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 1973 to 1975, and since 1998 he has been the Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France; born across the Congo River in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), the capital of the Belgian Congo; history professor at the Ecole normale supérieure d'Afrique Centrale in Brazzaville from 1965 to 1966, then Director-General of Education from 1966 to 1968; Minister of National Education from January 1969 until becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in December 1971. He was included on the five-member Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in December 1972. Subsequently he was Prime Minister from 1973 to 1975; reappointed to the government as Minister of Finance on 5 April 1977; he served in that position until Justin Lekoundzou was appointed to replace him in December 1980. Subsequently he worked at UNESCO as Assistant Director-General for Culture and Deputy Director-General for Africa from 1981 to 1998; in 26 October 1998, Lopès presented his credentials as Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France; while posted in Paris, he was additionally accredited as Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, and the Vatican City; in addition to his distinguished political and diplomatic career, Lopès has earned distinction as a literary author)
        • found: The New York Times (online), Henri Lopes, 86, who straddled literature and politics in Africa, dies, December 1, 2023, updated December 3, 2023, viewed February 25, 2024(died on November 2 in a hospital in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris; he finished his career as the Republic of Congo's ambassador in Paris, retiring in 2015)

      • LC Classification

        • PQ3989.2.L65

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      • Change Notes

        • 1979-09-05: new
        • 2024-02-26: revised

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