Agnès Agboton

**Agnès Agboton** (he yin jiji to 1960) yin wekantọ, ohó milomilo-kàntọ, otàn-dọtọ , po lẹdogbedevomẹ-basitọ po Bénin tọn de. E nọ nọ̀ Espagne todin. E wá sọn whẹndo Fon tọn mẹ, bo kanwe to ogbè susu mẹ, ehe bẹ Catalogne-gbè, Espagne-gbè, po Gungbè po hẹn. E ko wlan owe susu gando núdùdù po aṣa Aflika tọn lẹ po go, podọ e yin yinyọnẹn na azọ́n etọn to wekun kinkàn po lẹdogbedevomẹ aṣa Bénin tọn lẹ po mẹ gọna otàn lẹ na mẹhomẹ lẹ po ovi lẹ po. Humọ, e ko zín bẹplidopọ zẹ́nkla tọn awe jẹgbonu to Gungbè tọn po Espagne-gbè po mẹ. E nọ yin pinpọnhlan taidi omẹ nukundeji de to nukinkan Afro-espagnol tọn mẹ.

## Otàn gbẹzan tọn
Agboton yin jiji to Porto-Novo, Bénin, Whèyihọ Aflika tọn, fie e plọn nado nọ do  Gungbè, po Flansegbe po te. To tintan whenu, e plọnnu to wehọmẹ Katoliki tọn de mẹ to Abomey, podọ to godo mẹ e sẹtẹn yì Côte d'Ivoire nado zindonukọn to wepinplọn etọn mẹ. E dukosọ hẹ asu etọn, Manuel Carrera, bo sẹtẹn hẹ ẹ yì Catalania to owhe 18 mẹvi yinyin mẹ to 1978, bosọ plọn Hispanic philology to wehọmẹ alavọ Barcelona tọn, podọ to Catalogne-gbè po Espagne-gbè po mẹ.

## Azọ́n
Lẹndai azọ́n Agboton tọn ko yin nado whlá otàn nùmẹ tọn he bẹ aṣa he wá sọn Bénin po Aflika po lẹ hẹn. Sọn 1990 gbọ́n, e ko to azọ́nwa to wehọmẹ lẹ to Catalonia. E nọ plọnnu wehọmẹvi lẹ gando otàn Aflika tọn lẹ, otangblo lẹ, po aṣa otò lọ tọn lẹ po go. E ko zín bẹplidopọ voovo atọ̀n jẹgbonu sọn Bénin po Aflika po, he e kàn bo basi lẹdogbedevomẹ sọn Gungbe dowhenu tọn mẹ.  

To 2005, e zín owe de jẹgbonu gando otàn gbẹzan tọn etọn go to Espagne-gbè mẹ. To owe ehe mẹ, e flin otọ́ etọn he yin mẹplọntọ wehọmẹ tọn po alọgọtọ lẹdo lọ tọn de po to Bénin.  E ko sọ kàn owe susu gando núdùdù Aflika tọn po azọngban yọnnu lẹ tọn to whẹndo Aflika tọn lẹ mẹ po go.

E ko zín bẹplidopọ ohó milomilo lẹ tọn awe jẹgbonu to Gungbè po Espagne-gbè po mẹ: *Canciones del poblado y del exilio (2006)* po *Voz de las dos orillas (2009)* po. Lẹdogbedevomẹ Glẹnsigbe tọn he Lawrence Schimel basi to *Voz de las dos orillas* mẹ yin sislẹ taidi dopo to *World Literature Today* he diyin 100 to 2021 lẹ mẹ.  Schimel sọ basi lẹdogbedevomẹ ohó milomilo lẹ tọn gbọn ewọ dali he yin yiyidogọ tito-to-whinnu *New Daughters of Africa* 2019 tọn (he yin kinkan gbọn Margaret Busby dali). 

To 2012, Agboton yì Londres na nujijọ ayidego tọn de he nọ yin yiylọdọ Poetry Parnassus. E sọ nọ wà aṣa Bénin tọn lẹ taidi apadewhe otàn nùmẹ tọn he gbayipe lẹ.

## Owe lẹ
* *La cuina africana* (1988) - non-fiction, on African cuisine 
* *África en los fogones* (2001) - co-authored with Eulàlia Sariola, non-fiction, on African cuisine 
* *Las cocinas del mundo* (2002) - non-fiction, on African cuisine
* *Contes d'arreu del món* (1995) - collection of African and Beninese folktales
* *Na Mitón, the woman in African tales and legends* (2004)  
* *Eté Utú - Why in Africa things are what they are* (2009)
* Zemi Kede - Eros in African oral tradition narratives (2011)
* *Abenyonhú* (2003) - collection of African and Beninese folktales 
* *Más allá del mar de arena* / *Beyond the Sea of Sand* (2005) - memoir 
* *Canciones del poblado y del exilio* (Songs of Village and of Exile, 2006) - poetry, bilingual in Gun and Spanish 
* *Voz de las dos orillas* (Voice of the Two Shores, 2009)  - poetry, bilingual in Gun and Spanish 
* *Voice of the Two Shores* (2023) - poetry, trilingual in Gun, Spanish and English ISBN 9-781-90523-3748

## Alọdlẹndonu lẹ

Adà:Otàn Gbẹzan tọn
Adà:Yọnnu Benẹnu lẹ
Adà:Mẹhe yin jiji to 1960 lẹ