List of Senegalese writers
This is a list of prominent Senegalese authors (by surname)
A - G
- Agbo, Berte-Evelyne, poet, also connected with Benin
- Bâ, Mariama (1929–1981), French-language novelist[1][2]
- Barry, Kesso (1948– ), autobiographer born in Guinea[2]
- Benga, Sokhna (1967– ), novelist and poet
- Bocoum, Jacqueline Fatima, former journalist[3] turned author and programme director[4]
- Bugul, Ken (1948– ), autobiographical writer and novelist[2]
- Cisse, Mamadou (1956– )
- Louis Camara (1950- )
- Diakhate, Lamine (1928–1987), poet and novelist[2]
- Diallo, Nafissatou Niang (1941–1982), autobiographer, novelist and children's writer[2]
- Dieng, Mame Younousse, novelist in French and Wolof[2]
- Diouf, Nafissatou Dia (1973– ), novelist and children's writer,[5]
- Diouf, Sylviane, historian and lecturer[6]
- Diome, Fatou (1968– ), novelist[7]
- Diop, Alioune (1910–1980), essayist and intellectual[1]
- Diop, Birago (1906–1989), French-language folklorist, poet and autobiographer[1][2]
- Diop, Boubacar Boris (1946– ), novelist[2]
- Diop, Cheikh Anta (1923–1986), Afrocentric historian and anthropologist[1]
- Diop, David (1927–1960), poet[1][2]
- Dogbeh, Richard, also connected with Benin, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire (1932–2003)
- Fall, Khadi (1948– ), poet[2]
- Fall, Kiné Kirama (1934– ), poet
- Fall, Malick (1920–1978), French-language novelist and poet[1][2]
- Faye, Louis Diène (1936– ), anthropologist and scholar of Serer religion, history and culture[8][9][10]
- Gnimagnon, Christine Adjahi (1945- ), also connected with Benin
H - O
- Hane, Khadidjatou (Khady)
- Ka, Aminata Maiga (1940- )
- Ka, Aminata Maïga (1940- ), French-language novelist[1][2]
- Kane, Cheikh Hamidou (1928- ), French-language novelist[2]
- Mbaye, Annette (d'Erneville) (1926- )
- Mordasini, Diana
- Ndao, Cheikh Aliou (1933- ), novelist, playwright and poet[2]
- Ndiaye, Marie, born in France (1967- ), novelist[2]
- Ndoye, Mariama (1953- ), novelist, short story writer and children's writer[2]
- Niane, Djibril Tamsir (1932- ), novelist and historian[2]
- Niang, Mame Bassine (1951- ), writer and lawyer[2]
- Niang, Fatou Siga (1932- )
P - Z
- Sadji, Abdoulaye (1910–1961), novelist and children's writer[2]
- Sall, Amadou Lamine (1951- ), poet[2]
- Sall, Ibrahima (1949- ), novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer[2]
- Sarr, Alioune (1908), historian and politician, scholar of Serer history[11][12]
- Seek, Alioune Badara (1945- ), novelist[2]
- Sembène, Ousmane (1923–2007), writer and filmmaker[1][2]
- Sène, Fama Diagne (1969- ), novelist and playwright[13]
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar (1906–2001), poet and politician[1][2]
- Ousmane Socé (1911–1973), French-language novelist[2]
- Sow, Fatou Ndiaye (1956–2004)
- Sow Fall, Aminata (1941- ), novelist[2]
- Sylla, Khady (1963- )
- Thiaw, Issa Laye (1943-), historian, theologian and scholar of Serer religion and history[14]
- Rama Thiaw (born 1978), filmmaker, screenwriter
- Traoré, Abibatou (1973- )
- Vieyra, Myriam Warner (1939- ), novelist born in Guadeloupe[2]
- Wheatley, Phillis (1753–1784)
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 See the entry in Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe, eds., The Companion to African Literatures. James Currey & Indiana University Press; 2000. ISBN 0-253-33633-3
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 See the entry in Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3
- ↑ (French) Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
- ↑ (French) Institut Panos, Union des journalistes du Ghana, "Ne tirez pas sur les médias: éthique et déontologie de l'information en Afrique de l'Ouest : quelques communications d'un séminaire régional organisé à Accra du 26 au 29 février 1996", L'Harmattan, 1996, p 173
- ↑ (in) Femmes Ecrivaines The University of Western Australia /French (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
- ↑ Profile [in] University of Washington (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
- ↑ Jean-Marie Volet: NOT TO BE MISSED, "Le ventre de l'Atlantique", a novel by Fatou DIOME, September 2009, The University of Western Australia/School of Humanities
- ↑ Faye, Louis Diène, "Mort et Naissance, le monde sereer", Le Nouvelles Editions Africaines (1983) (biography, back cover), ISBN 2-7236-0868-9
- ↑ Editor : Ndour, Saliou, "L'Industrie musicale au Sénégal: essai d'analyse", African Books Collective (2008), p. 119, ISBN 2869782349 (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
- ↑ In Stanford (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
- ↑ Diallo, Kalidou, "Le syndicalisme dans l'enseignement public en Afrique occidentale française", 1903-1960, L'Harmattan (2011) p 359, ISBN 978-2-296-56044-4
- ↑ Klein, Martin A, "Islam and Imperialism in Senegal Sine-Saloum, 1847–1914", Edinburgh University Press (1968), p 277
- ↑ Fama Diagne Sene (in) "Femmes Ecrivaines", The University of Western Australia /French (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
- ↑ "Littératures et sociétés africaines", Editors : Riesz, János; Diop, Papa Samba; Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen; Fendler, Ute & Vatter, Christoph, Gunter Narr Verlag (2001), p 483, ISBN 3-8233-5854-5 ()
External links
- UWA's list of women writers from French speaking Africa
- Contemporary Africa Database (Senegal section)
- Contemporary African writers/authors
- Africa Resource research data
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