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
Marie-Claire Daveluy Marie-Claire Daveluy Marie-Claire Daveluy (August 15, 1880 – January 21, 1968) was a Canadian librarian, historian and writer. She is considered a pioneer in library science in Canada. The daughter of Georges Daveluy and Marie Lesieur Desaulniers, she was born in Montreal and was educated at the Hochelaga Convent. She earned a degree in library science at McGill University in 1920. At the Bibliothèque municipale de Montréal, she was assistant librarian from 1920 to 1943 and head of cataloguing from 1930 to 1941. In 1937, with Aegidius Fauteux, she founded the École de bibliothécaires at the Université de Montréal and