Boubacar Boris Diop

Boubacar Boris Diop was born on 26 October 1946 in Dakar. A teacher of literature and philosophy in secondary schools in his country, then technical adviser at the Ministry of Culture, he became a journalist and long contributed to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. A stay in Rwanda in 1998 inspired him to write a novel on the genocide of the Tutsi, and he then began to write in Wolof, his mother tongue. He received the Neustadt Prize in 2022.

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• NovelLe Temps de TamangoBoubacar Boris Diop · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature