Aminata Sow Fall

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

Biography

After several years at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint -Louis Aminata Sow closes case their schooling at the Lycée Van Vo for Dakar. Because it is followed by a study of Roman philology and literature up to the Licence at the Sorbonne. In 1963 she marries and returns as a teacher back to Dakar and operates within the framework of a national commission on the reform of French teaching with.

From 1979 to 1988 she is Head of Language and literature research, as well as copyrights, the Ministry of Culture and director of the Center for Studies and Culture. Also, you are basically the foundation of the publishing house Khoudia, the Centre Africain d' Animation et d' Échanges Culturels to support young writers of African agency to safeguard the rights of authors in Dakar and the International Center for Studies, Research and reactivation of literature, art and culture in Saint -Louis to owe. In 1985, she is the first female president of the Writers Union of Senegal.

Various universities praised their work with an honorary doctorate. Content of their works are primarily the encounter and the contrast between traditional and western culture and values ​​, as well as the social conflicts that result. They live by 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 of Battu.

Works

  • Le Revenant, novel, 1976, Dt. 1998
  • La Grève of Battu, 1979 ( The strike of beggars ) - From Oumar Cissoko filmed; Modern policy, geared to keep up appearances of a functioning society, in contrast to traditional and religious rites at the mercy towards socially disadvantaged. Dt. 1991, 1996
  • L' Appel des Arenes 1982. After training abroad and cutting the umbilical cord of the family and their traditional values, a couple is about their child back to their roots. Dt. 2001
  • L' ex - père de la nation, 1987. Failure of an idealistic politician who sees himself in the role of father of the nation, to the social and economic realities. As a result, the mutation of his regime into a dictatorship and ultimately his bloody fall - as uncomprehending résumé of his term. Dt. 1997
  • Le Jujubier du Patriarche, 1993 ( The Jews bramble of the Patriarch )
  • Douceurs you Bercail, 1998
  • Un grain de vie et d' espérance, 2002 ( A piece of life and hope - Considerations on the 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 of arènes )
  • The miraculous transformation of Bakar Diop Göttingen: Lamuv, 1998 ISBN 3889775039 ( French Le revenant )
  • The Sun President ibid., 1997 ISBN 388977492X ( Fr. L' ex - père de la nation )
  • The strike of beggars ibid 1996 ISBN 3889774369 ( Fr. La grève of Battu ou les déchets humains ) Erstaufl. udT The strike of beggars, or 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 ( Original French with German translation ) 1982
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