Bernard Binlin Dadié

Bernard Binlin Dadié, 2018

Bernard Binlin Dadié (born January 10, 1916 in Assinie , † March 9, 2019 in Abidjan ) was a French-speaking writer and cultural worker from the Ivory Coast .

Life

Bernard Binlin Dadié attended the École normal William Ponty . He was a participant in the Ivory Coast's struggle for independence and spent some time in prison. In his works he combined the traditional form of black African fairy tales and legends with contemporary subjects (including autobiographical: Climbié ). He wrote plays, chronicles, novels, short stories, poetry and collected fairy tales.

Works

• Légends africaines (1954) (African legends)
• Patron de New York (1956)
• Un Nègre à Paris (1959)

He was twice awarded the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire of the Association of French-Speaking Writers.

John Williams used one of his poems (Dry Your Tears, Africa) to compose the score for the film Amistad .

literature

• Frédéric Lemaire: Bernard Dadié: itinéraire d'un écrivain africain dans la première moitié du XXe siècle . L'Harmattan, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-296-07276-3 .
• Nicole Vincileoni: Comprendre l'œuvre de Bernard B. Dadié . Les Classiques africains, Issy-les-Moulineaux 1987, ISBN 2-85049-368-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernard Binlin Dadié in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tirthankar Chanda: Bernard Dadié, «patron» des lettres africaines. In: Radio France Internationale . February 19, 2016 (French). 
• Nina Delano: Bernard Dadié: les couleurs du monde. In: Colby.edu . June 6, 2005 (French, biography). 
• Nina Delano: Les Œuvres de Dadié. In: Colby.edu. May 6, 2005 (French). 
• David Allen Case: Bernard Binlin Dadie's Observations. In: The Journal of African Travel-Writing. September 1, 1999, pp. 90-92 , archived from the original on May 5, 2006 (reviews by An African in Paris and One Way: Bernard Dadie Observes America ).