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

• List of Senegalese
• List of Gambian writers
• List of African writers by country

References

1. 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
2. See the entry in Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3
3. (French) Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
4. (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
5. (in) Femmes Ecrivaines The University of Western Australia /French (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
6. Profile [in] University of Washington (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
7. 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
8. Faye, Louis Diène, "Mort et Naissance, le monde sereer", Le Nouvelles Editions Africaines (1983) (biography, back cover), ISBN 2-7236-0868-9
9. Editor : Ndour, Saliou, "L'Industrie musicale au Sénégal: essai d'analyse", African Books Collective (2008), p. 119, ISBN 2869782349 (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
10. In Stanford (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
11. 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
12. Klein, Martin A, "Islam and Imperialism in Senegal Sine-Saloum, 1847–1914", Edinburgh University Press (1968), p 277
13. Fama Diagne Sene (in) "Femmes Ecrivaines", The University of Western Australia /French (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)
14. "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