Category talk:Senegalese writers

Decided for the discussion page to submit my latest works in this context. Mainly based on the indications in the French encyclopedia. Sorry, if my language is not, that of a native speaker and might need reviewing.

The articles are partly edited following existing examples, but might to be improved on this aspect as well, due to problems of compatibility of computers / programs and similar, on the one hand, or adapted and completed, as to the links to related articles (exhaustive list was not available to me.

’’’Aminata Sow Fall’’’

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Aminata Sow Fall, born in 1941 in Saint-Louis / Senegal, is a Senegalese Author.

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Biography After several years at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis Aminata Sow Fall completes her secondary education at the Lycée Van Vo in Dakar. Follows a period of studies of Roman Philology and Literature in France, that earn her a Licence-degree. Having married in 1963 she returns to Senegal to work as a teacher and is then invited to cooperate in a National Commission charged with reforming the Instruction of the French Language. From 1979 to 1988 she works as a director for Language and Literary Studies and Intellectual Property in the Ministry of Culture and Director of the Centre for Studies and Culture. Further merits are to be seen in the foundation of the publishing company Khoudia, the African Centre for Cultural Exchange, the African Bureau for the Defence of the Liberties of Authors in Dakar and the International Centre for Studies, Research and Reactivation of Literature, Arts and Culture in Saint-Louis. Various Universities have conferred her with an honorary doctorate for her commitment to the promotion of culture and cultural exchange. As regards content her publications mainly deal with the collision and contrast of traditional and occidental culture and values and the social conflicts that arise as a consequence and manage to keep the reader under their spell through the irony evolving from the viewpoint of the narrator and language.

Bibliography - Le Revenant, Novel, 1976 - La Grève des Bàttu, Novel, 1979 (The Strike of the Deprived) / Adapted into a film by Oumar Cissoko Modern Politics intended to preserve the appearances of a functioning society contrasted to traditional and religious rites around compassion and donations to socially deprived - L’Appel des Arènes, Novel, 1982 (The Call of the Arenas) Distancing from the family and traditional values after studies abroad a couple reluctantly finds back to its roots through their child - Ex-Père de la Nation, Novel, 1987 (The Ex-Father of the Nation) The defeat of an idealistic politician considering his role as father of the nation confronted with the social and economical realities. As a consequence his regime turns into a dictatorship and he is removed from power by a subversive movement - Le Jujubier du Patriarche, Novel, 1993 - Douceurs du Bercail, Novel, 1998 (The Sweetness of Homeland) - Un grain de vie et d’espérance, 2002 (A grain of life and hope – Reflections on gastronomic culture in Senegal, followed by a collection of recipes assembled by Margo Harley)

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http://arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/SowFallAminata.html

Categories: Senegalese Author / 1941 Births

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’’’Mariama Ba’’’

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Mariama Bâ, born in 1929 in Senegal, is a Senegalese Author.

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Biography Her family background traditional and Muslim, Mariama Bâ starts to attend a French School at the death of her mother and proves to be an excellent pupil. In 1943 she continues her education at the Normal School in Rufisque, she quits in 1947 on obtaining a diploma qualifying her as a teacher. After twelve years she fully dedicates to her profession, Mariama Bâ asks to be integrated into the Regional School Inspection Authority for health reasons. Divorced from her husband, the Member of Parliament Obèye Diop, she was left to raise their nine mutual children alone and started to become committed to various women’s associations promoting education and women’s rights via endless series of speeches and articles in local newspapers. When her first novel Une si longue lettre was published in 1980 it was at once awarded the Noma-Price at the Frankfurt Book-Fair. Only one year later she died from cancer, just before her second novel was presented to the public. A secondary school in Dakar (Maison d’éducation Mariama Bâ) was named in her commemoration. Typically her novels deal with the social conditions of her surroundings and the problems related, like polygamy, casts, exploitation of women – as described in the first novel – or the scepticism of the family and difficulties adapting to the new cultural environment encountered with intercultural marriages – as the content of the second.

Bibliography Une si longue lettre, Novel, 1979 (A long letter) La fonction politique des littératures africaines écrites, 1981 (The political function of written African Literature) Un chant écarlate, Novel, 1981 (The Scarlet Song)

Sources http://arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/BaMariama.html http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mba.htm

Categories: Senegalese Author / 1929 Births

’’’Fatou Diome’’’

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Fatou Diome, born in 1968 in Niodor (a Senegalese island), is a Senegalese Author. At present she lives in France and is preparing a doctorate degree in Roman Languages and Literature at Strasbourg University.

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Biography After publishing an anthology of short stories in 2001, two years later her initial novel Le ventre de l’Atlantique turns out to be a real success with the public. France and Africa, and the relation between the two, serve as a background for her fiction. Her style is deeply rooted with the tradition of oral narration, still typical for cultural life in contemporary Africa. With her characteristic undisguised description, merciless humour and a strong vocabulary, which nevertheless remains full of nuances, Fatou Diome depicts a gloomy portrait of problems encountered with integration after the arrival in France interspersed by the nostalgia and warmer colours of memories of the childhood in Africa. Le Ventre de l'Atlantique is now translated into English: Belly of the Atlantic (translated by Lulu Norman and Ros Schwartz), Serpents Tail, Sept. 2006.

Bibliography La Préférence Nationale, Anthology, 2001 (National Predeliction) Le Ventre de l’Atlantique, Novel, 2003 (The Belly of the Atlantic) Les Loups de l’Atlantique, Story, 2002 (The Wolves of the Atlantic) – part of the Anthology: Étonnants Voyageurs. Nouvelles Voix d’Afrique. (Astounding Travellers. New Voices of Africa)

Sources http://arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/DiomeFatou.html Categories: Senegalese Author / 1968 Births