Aminata Sow case

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Aminata Sow Fall (born April 27, 1941 in Saint-Louis , Senegal) is a Senegalese writer .

Aminata Sow Fall (2011)

Life

After several years at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, Aminata Sow Fall completed her schooling at the Lycée Van Vollenhoven in Dakar . She then went on to study Romance philology and literature up to a license at the Sorbonne . In 1963 she married and returned to Dakar as a teacher and worked on reforming French teaching as part of a national commission.

From 1979 to 1988 she was head of linguistic and literary research, as well as copyright, in the Ministry of Culture and head of the Center for Studies and Culture. In addition, you are essentially founding the publishing house Khoudia, the Center Africain d'Animation et d'Échanges Culturels to support young writers, the African agency for the protection of the rights of authors in Dakar and the international center for the study, research and reactivation of literature To owe art and culture in Saint-Louis. In 1985 she became the first female president of the Senegalese Writers' Union.

Various universities recognized her work with an honorary doctorate . The content of her works is primarily the encounter and the contrast between traditional and western culture and values, as well as the social conflicts that result from them. They live from the irony of the approach and the language. In 1980 she received the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire for her work La Grève des Battu .

Aminata Sow Fall was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Awards

Works

  • Le Revenant , Roman, 1976, Ger. 1998
  • La Grève des Bàttu , 1979 (The beggars' strike) - Filmed by Oumar Cissoko; Modern politics, aimed at preserving the appearance of a functioning society, in contrast to traditional and religious rites of mercy for the socially disadvantaged. German 1991, 1996
  • L'Appel des Arènes 1982. After training abroad and breaking free from their family and traditional values, a couple found their way back to their roots through their child. German 2001
  • L'ex-père de la nation , 1987. The failure of an idealistic politician, who sees himself in the role of the father of the nation, because of social and economic realities. As a result, the mutation of his regime into a dictatorship and ultimately his bloody overthrow - as an incomprehensible résumé of his term in office. German 1997
  • Le Jujubier du Patriarche , 1993 (The Patriarch's Jew's thorn bush )
  • Douceurs du Bercail , 1998
  • Un grain de vie et d'espérance , 2002 (A piece of life and hope - reflections on food culture in Senegal, followed by a collection of recipes compiled by Margo Harley)

German edition

  • The return of the drums Munich: Kappa, 2001 ISBN 3932000544 (French. L'appel des arènes)
  • The miraculous transformation of Bakar Diop Göttingen: Lamuv, 1998 ISBN 3889775039 (French: Le revenant)
  • Der Sonnenpräsident ibid, 1997 ISBN 388977492X (French: L 'ex-père de la nation)
  • The strike of the beggars ibid 1996 ISBN 3889774369 (French: La grève des bàttu ou les déchets humains) first edition. udT The strike of the beggars or the human waste Frankfurt: Lembeck, 1991 ISBN 3874762688
  • Africa original issue 1: Aminata Sow Fall, Gabriel Evouna Mfono, Ndeye Coumba, Mbengue Diakhate. Basel: Bread for Brothers (French originals with German translation) 1982

literature

  • Mary-Kay F. Miller: (Re) productions: autobiography, colonialism, and infanticide . Frankfurt / Main: Peter Lang, 2003. ISBN 0-8204-6362-0 (Series: Francophone cultures and literatures , Vol. 41)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décret n ° 2013-329 du 8 mars 2013 portant reconduction et nomination des membres du Conseil de l'Ordre national du Lion ( Memento of 9 June 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fall, Aminata Sow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Louis, Senegal