Mame Younousse Dieng

Mame Younousse Dieng was born in 1939 in Tivaouane, in Cayor, where she grew up among the tales of the griots, proverbs and songs. Trained at the École normale, a schoolteacher from 1960 and later a head teacher, she translated the national anthem into Wolof in 1961 and campaigned for the national languages; her first novel is among the first Senegalese novels written in Wolof. Author in French of L'Ombre en feu, in 1997, and poet of the collection Jeneer, she died in Dakar on 1 April 2016.

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• NovelAawo biMame Younousse Dieng · 1992not translated into EnglishLiterature