Gaoussou Diawara

Gaoussou Diawara was born in 1940 in Ouélessébougou, into a Soninke family of marabouts. A scholarship holder in 1961, he studied in Moscow, at the city's literature institute and then at the institute of theatre arts, obtained a master's degree in dramatic art and assisted the director Andrei Goncharov. Back in Mali, he created the dramatic arts section of the Institut national des arts, was the first president of the Union of Malian Writers, defended a doctorate in Moscow in 1979 and taught at the École normale supérieure, then at the university. He died in September 2018, aged seventy-eight.

In the catalogue 1

• TheatreL'Aube des béliersGaoussou Diawara · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature