Tierno Monénembo

Thierno Saïdou Diallo, who writes under the name Tierno Monénembo, was born in 1947 in Porédaka, the son of a civil servant. In 1969 he left Guinea on foot for Senegal, fleeing the regime of Sékou Touré, studied in Côte d'Ivoire and then in France, where he obtained a doctorate in biochemistry in Lyon, and taught in Morocco and Algeria. He published his first novel in 1979 and received the Prix Renaudot in 2008; he has also taught at Middlebury College in the United States since 2007.

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• NovelLes Écailles du cielTierno Monénembo · 1986not translated into EnglishLiterature