Aminata Sow Fall

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Aminata Sow Fall , born in 1941 with Saint-Louis (Senegal), is a writer E sénégalaise.

Biography

After several years with the College Faidherbe of Saint-Louis, Aminata Sow Fall finishes its secondary education with the college Van Vollenhoven - today college Lamine Guèye - with Dakar. Thereafter it starts a license modern letters in France.

After its marriage in 1963 it returns to the Senegal for initially dedicating itself to teaching, then to take a function within a National Commission of reform of the teaching of French.

Of 1979 with 1988 direct of the Letters and Intellectual property with the Ministry for the Culture, and Center of studies and civilizations, are to him also to allot merits around the foundation of the publisher Khoudia, African Center of animation and cultural exchanges, African Office for the defense of freedoms of the writer in Dakar and the international reactivation and research, studies Center on the literature, arts and the culture in Saint-Louis.

Several Universities equipped it with a title of Honorary doctor. In general built on a bottom of contrasts and social conflicts resulting from the coexistence from the cultures and traditional and Western values, its works live mainly of the irony expressed by the language and the reflections from the point of view of the narrator.

Works

  • the Ghost , Novel, 1976
  • the Strike of Bàttu , 1979 -: Carried with the screen by Cheick Oumar Sissoko in 2000 product by Emits Films - Producing: Patrick Young
The Policy Modern and its Orientation to preserve Appearances running up against the rites traditional and religious around alms with deprived the
  • the Call of the arenas , 1982: Outdistanced of the traditional family and the values after studies abroad a couple redécouvre these cultural roots through its offspring -: Carried with the screen by Sheik Diaye in 2006 product by Sira Badral - Producing: Sheik Diaye
  • Ex-Father of the Nation , 1987: The failure of an idealistic politician, who sees his role as a Father of the Nation, vis-a-vis social realities and economic. The consequences are the transition from its mode in dictatorship, then finally are inversion in blood - Summarized from the point of view of (ex-) the leader
  • the Jujube tree of the patriarch , 1993
  • Douceurs of the fold , 1998
  • a grain of life and hope , 2002: Reflection on art to eat and food in Senegal, follow-up of a score of receipts suggested by Margo Harley
  • Feast of distress , 2005

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