Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère Matip (born 1938) is a Cameroonian writer living in Paris. The daughter of a tribal leader, she was born in Eséka; her father had about fifty children from several different mothers. She was schooled at home at first and then attended school locally. Then, she studied at a college for girls in Douala, where she wrote her novel "Ngonda". In 1956, she won a contest sponsored by "Elle" magazine and Air France that allowed her to travel to France; she returned the following year. In 1958, she studied for her baccalauréat at the Lycée Général Leclerc in
Marcelle Auclair Lourdes (1957). She also published biographies of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, whom she knew personally (1968), and of the early 20th century pro-peace French socialist Jean Jaurès (1954). Auclair's first original publication was "Transparence", a book of original poetry in Spanish, published when she was 20 years old, and living in Santiago, Chile. Another early publication, in French, was Auclair's novel, "Toya", published in 1927. In 1937, Auclair and founded the fashion magazine "Marie Claire". Auclair wrote many articles for "Marie Claire", extending over a period of several years. In "A History of Private Life" (1991), writing