Author · Mauritania
Tène Youssouf Guèye
Died in 1988
Tène Youssouf Guèye was born in 1928 in Dimbé Djoro, near Kaédi, on the Senegal River. A senior civil servant and diplomat after independence, he chaired the association of Mauritanian writers and gave French-language Mauritanian literature its first play, its first collection of short stories and its first novel; he also published poems and studies on Fulani literature. Arrested under the regime of Maaouiya Ould Taya, he died in 1988 in Oualata, where he was being held.
In the catalogue 1
- TheatreLes Exilés de GoumelTène Youssouf Guèye · 1975not translated into EnglishLiterature