Fama Diagne Sène

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Fama Diagne Sène (2013)

Fama Diagne Sène (* 1969 in Thiès ) is a Senegalese writer (novel and short story) and poet . She received the Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize in 2011 .

Life

Fama Diagne Sène went to university in Thiès and became a teacher there. Her colleague Ken Bugul counted her to the "illustrious women" of Senegalese literature. In 1997 she received the literary prize “Grand Prix du président de la République du Sénégal pour les Lettres” (Grand Prize of the President of the Republic of Senegal for literature) for her first novel Le chant des ténèbres [The Song of Darkness].

Coming from a Serer family herself, she denounced the Serer tradition in her controversial play Mbilem ou le baobab du lion , for which she was heavily criticized by the Serer traditionalists of Senegal. MBilène (variant: Bilim) is a religious festival in the Serer calendar, which is celebrated once a year and corresponds to the New Year . In pre-colonial times and until more recently, some Serer griots were buried in the trunks of a baobab tree , rather than in a pyramidal tomb with all the insignia prescribed by the Serer religion. Burial in a grave and mummification were always entitled to the Serer nobility, but some Serer griots were not buried in this way. In this piece, Sène criticizes this tradition and thus got on a course of confrontation with the Serer priest class.

Awards and honors

Publications

  • Le chant des ténèbres: roman . Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, Dakar 1997, ISBN 2-7236-1109-4 (note).
  • Humanité . Éditions Maguilen et Éditions Damel, Dakar and Geneva 2003.
  • Les deux amies de Lamtoro. Conte pour enfants . Falia Éditions Enfance et Edicef, Léeboon-Lippoon 2003.
  • “Trois hivers à Genève”, in Le camp des innocents: prix littéraire Williams Sassine: 15 nouvelles africaines . Lansman Editor; Cooperation par education et la culture, Carnières-Morlanwelz, Belgium; Bruxelles 2006, ISBN 2-87282-517-7 .
  • La momie d'Almamya: roman . Nouvelles éditions africaines du Sénégal, Dakar 2003, ISBN 2-7236-1489-1 .
  • Barça ou barsakh: les coulisses de la misère . Editions Damelles du Sénégal, Dakar 2009, ISBN 978-2-918662-00-6 .
  • MBilène ou le Baobab du lion . 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fama Diagne Sène. In: edu.au. aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Le Voyage de l'Amitié - Créer des bibliothèques au Sénégal. In: voyageamitie.org. web.archive.org, 2012, archived from the original on June 26, 2012 ; accessed on January 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ngue, Julie Christine Nack, University of California , Los Angeles, “Critical Conditions: Refiguring Bodies of Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing,” ProQuest, 2007, pp. 151-219
  4. ↑ PiccMi.Com - L'Oiseau qui survole toute l'Actualité. In: piccmi.com. web.archive.org, 2013, archived from the original on October 17, 2013 ; accessed on January 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Cikuru Batumike, Être noir africain en Suisse: Intégration, identité, perception et perspectives d'avenir d'une minorité visible , L'Harmattan, Paris, 2006, p. 119 ISBN 9782296145818
  6. ↑ Les écrivains honorent leurs membres les plus méritants. In: cdc-ccd.org. web.archive.org, 2016, archived from the original on March 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 25, 2020 .
  7. ^ [Ethiopiques - Revue negro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie.]. In: refer.sn. ethiopiques.refer.sn, accessed January 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sène, Fama Diagne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese poet, writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Thiès