Olympe Bhêly-Quenum (born 20 September 1928) is a Beninese writer, journalist and magazine editor.
[2] In 1948 he went to France and undertook his secondary studies at the College Littré, in Avranches, Normandy (Manche).
He was Editor-in-Chief and then Director of an African magazine entitled La Vie Africaine until 1964.
He won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for Le Chant du lac in 1966.
His first novel Un piège sans fin (1960) was translated into English as Snares Without End (Longman, 1981) and has been called "an un-put-downable tragedy".