Boubacar Boris Diop
| Boubacar Boris Diop |
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| Born |
1946
Dakar |
| Occupation |
Writer and journalist |
| Nationality |
Senegalese |
Boubacar Boris Diop (born 1946 in Dakar) is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements (Murambi: The Book of Bones), is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays. Doomi Golo (2006) is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof, it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.
Life and career
Boubacar Boris Diop is born in Dakar in 1946. He teaches literature and philosophy in several Senegalese high schools. He becomes technical advisor at the Cultural Ministry of Senegal. He starts working as a journalist and writer; he collaborates with local newspapers, with the Swiss magazine Neue Zürcher Zeitung and with the Paris-based magazine Afrique, perspectives et réalités.[1]
Work
Boubacar Boris Diop is a writer. In 1998 during the campaign Rwanda : écrire par devoir de mémoire he writes Murambi, le livre des ossements. He is the author of Doomi Golo, a novel entirely in Wolof.
He also writes for films and theatre. He contributes to numerous publications among which Internazionale, Chimurenga
Novels
- Kaveena, Philippe Rey, 2006.
- L'Impossible innoncence, Philippe Rey, 2004.
- Doomi Golo, novel in Wolof, éditions Papyrys, 2003 (in French Les Petits de la guenon, éditions Philippe Rey, 2009).
- Murambi, Le livre des ossements, Stock, 2000.
- L'Europe, vues d'Afrique, nouvelles, collectif, Le Figuier.
- Le Cavalier et son ombre, Stock Paris, 1997, Price Tropiques 1997.
- Les Traces de la meute, roman, éditions l'Harmattan Paris 1993.
- Les Tambours de la mémoire, Nathan Paris, 1987, re-edition L'Harmattan, 1990, Grand Price de la République du Sénégal pour les Lettres, 1990.
- Le Temps de Tamango, follows Thiaroye, terre rouge, (théâtre) first edition Harmattan Paris 1981, Price Bureau Sénégalais du Droit d'Auteurs 1984. Translated into Italian. Re-edition Le Serpent à Plumes, 2002.
Essays
- Négrophobie, essai, with Odile Tobner and François-Xavier Verschave, Ed. Les Arènes, 2005.
- L'Afrique au secours de l'Occident, preface of the book by Anne-Cécile Robert, Ed. de l'Atelier
- Le Temps des aveux, Labor, Belgique 1993, collection of texts on the issue Ecriture et démocratie (writing and democracy)
Scriptwriting
- Thiaroye terre rouge00, L'Harmattan 1981 (with Le Temps de Tamango).
- Grandakar-Usine, une autre de ses pièces -écrite en collaboration avec le metteur en scène sénégalais Oumar Ndao- a été jouée sur plusieurs scènes d'Afrique Noire et du Maghreb.
Political writings
References
Bibliography
Interviews
See also
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1946 |
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Dakar |
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