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Senegalese novelist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boubacar Boris Diop (born 26 October 1946) is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements (translated into English as 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 (2003) is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof;[citation needed] it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.
Boubacar Boris Diop | |
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Born | 26 October 1946 |
Nationality | Senegalese |
Occupation | Writer and journalist |
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He was awarded the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.[1]
Boubacar Boris Diop was born in Dakar in 1946. He taught literature and philosophy in several Senegalese high schools. He became technical advisor at the Cultural Ministry of Senegal. He began working as a journalist and writer, writing for local newspapers, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Paris-based magazine Afrique, perspectives et réalités.[2]
Diop's book Murambi, le livre des ossements was written for the Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire [Rwanda: write out of a duty to remember] initiative of 1998. He is the author of Doomi Golo, a novel entirely in Wolof. It was translated to English by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop, and published as Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by the Michigan State University Press in the series African Humanities and the Arts.[3] His novel Murambi, The Book of Bones won him the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.[4]
Diop also writes for the cinema and theatre and contributes to numerous publications, including Internazionale and Chimurenga.
In 2022, he headlined the Neustadt Festival. [5]
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