Williams Sassine

Williams Sassine was born in 1944 in Kankan, to a Lebanese Christian father and a Guinean Muslim mother. He left Guinea after independence, studied mathematics in Paris and taught it, while writing novels peopled with outcasts. Having returned home at the fall of the regime, in 1984, he wrote a column for the satirical newspaper Le Lynx, of which he was editor-in-chief. He died in Conakry on 9 February 1997, and a literary prize now bears his name.

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• NovelLe Jeune Homme de sableWilliams Sassine · 1979not translated into EnglishLiterature