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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]
Barry, Mariama , French-language autobiographical novelist
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– )
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]
Aminata Sophie Dièye (1973–2016), journalist, novelist and playwright
[5]
Babacar Sedikh Diouf (1928– ), historian, author and intellectual
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
Diouf, Nafissatou Dia (1973– ), novelist and children's writer,
[10]
Diouf, Sylviane , historian and lecturer
[11]
Diome, Fatou (1968– ), novelist
[12]
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
[13]
[14]
[15]
Gnimagnon, Christine Adjahi (1945– ), also connected with
Benin
H - O
Hane, Khadidjatou (Khady) (1962– )
Joof, Tamsier (1973– )
Ka, Aminata Maïga (1940–2005), French-language novelist
[1]
[2]
Kane, Cheikh Hamidou (1928– ), French-language novelist
[2]
Kane, Ndèye Fatou (1986– ), Senegalese novelist and feminist, granddaughter of Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Mbaye, Annette (d'Erneville) (1926– )
Amina Sow Mbaye (1937– ) French-language poet and novelist
[16]
Mordasini, Diana
Ndao, Cheikh Aliou (1933– ), novelist, playwright and poet
[2]
Adja Ndèye Boury Ndiaye (1936– ), novelist
[17]
Ndiaye, Marie , born in
France (1967– ), novelist
[2]
Ndoye, Mariama (1953– ), novelist, short story writer and children's writer
[2]
Niane, Djibril Tamsir (1932–2021), novelist and historian
[2]
Niang, Mame Bassine (1951–2013), writer and lawyer
[2]
Niang, Fatou Siga (1932–2022)
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 (1908–2001), historian and politician, scholar of
Serer history
[18]
[19]
Seek, Alioune Badara (1945– ), novelist
[2]
Sembène, Ousmane (1923–2007), writer and filmmaker
[1]
[2]
Sène, Fama Diagne (1969– ), novelist and playwright
[20]
Senghor, Léopold Sédar (1906–2001), poet and politician
[1]
[2]
Catherine Shan (1952– ), French language novelist and film director
[21]
Ousmane Socé (1911–1973), French-language novelist
[2]
Sow, Fatou Ndiaye (1956–2004)
Sow Fall, Aminata (1941– ), novelist
[2]
Sylla, Khady (1963–2013)
Thiaw, Issa Laye (1943–2017), historian, theologian and scholar of
Serer religion and
history
[22]
Rama Thiaw (1978– ), filmmaker, screenwriter
Traoré, Abibatou (1973– )
Vieyra, Myriam Warner (1939–2017), novelist born in
Guadeloupe
[2]
Wheatley, Phillis (1753–1784)
See also
References
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i 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
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aa See the entry in
Simon Gikandi , ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature . Routledge; 2002.
ISBN
978-0-415-23019-3
^ (in French)
Agence de Presse Sénégalaise
Archived 2011-07-22 at the
Wayback Machine (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
^ (in 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
^
"Aminata Sophie Dièye: vie et mort d'une femme de lettres exceptionnelle" . RFI (in French). 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2021-03-02 .
^ Babacar Sedikh Diouf's body of works: Diouf, Babacar Sedikh, O maad a sinig : Kumba Ndoofeen fa Maak JUUF (Buka-Cilaas) , 1853-1871 (PAPF, 1987) [in]
Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) [in] CARLI I-Share
[1] (retrieved February 8, 2020)
^ Diouf, Babacar Sedikh, O maad a sinig : Kumba Ndoofeen fa Maak JUUF (Buka-Cilaas) , 1853-1871, PAPF (1987) [in]
WorldCat
[2] (retrieved February 8, 2020)
^ Smith, Étienne, « Merging ethnic histories in Senegal: whose moral community? », in Derek Peterson & Giacomo Macola (dir.), Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa, Athens, Ohio University Press, 2009, (213-232.), p. 12 (PDF) [in] Academia.edu
[3] (retrieved February 8, 2020)
^ Smith, Étienne, La nation « par le côté » - "Le récit des cousinages au Sénégal", (pp. 907-965), 2006 [in] Cahiers d'Études africaine., Notes: 45, 81, 93; Texte intégral: 3, 54, 55, 71.
[4] (retrieved February 8, 2020)
^
(in) Femmes Ecrivaines [
permanent dead link ] The
University of Western Australia /French (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
^ Profile [in]
University of Washington
[5] (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
[6] (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
^ In
Stanford
[7] (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
^
"Amina Sow Mbaye" . University of Western Australia.
^
"Adja Ndeye Boury Ndiaye" . University of Western Australia.
^ 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)
^
"Catherine Shan N'Diaye" . University of Western Australia.
^ 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 (
[8] )
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