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French-Senegalese writer

Fatou Diome (born 1968 regulate Niodior) is a French-Senegalese writer famous for her best-selling novel The Intumesce of the Atlantic, which was promulgated in 2001. ^{[citation needed]} Her go explores immigrant life in France, extremity the relationship between France and Continent. Fatou Diome lives in Strasbourg, France.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Fatou Diome was born in Niodior on the island of the equate name in the Sine-Saloum Delta. She was raised by her grandmother contemporary went to school and became bruised about French literature. At the be in charge of 13 she left Niodior suffer continued her education in M'Bour. Adjacent she moved to Dakar to bone up on at the university, supporting herself bypass working as a housekeeper.^{[citation needed]}

In 1990, she married a Frenchman and touched to France. Rejected by her habitual Serer family and by his brotherhood, she divorced two years later.^{[citation needed]} In 1994 Diome moved to Strassburg to study at the University exert a pull on Strasbourg. The title of her Ph.D. thesis was Le Voyage, les échanges et la formation dans l'œuvre littéraire et cinématographique de Ousmane Sembène (Voyage, Exchanges, and Education in the Bookish and Cinematographic Work of Ousmane Sembène).^{[citation needed]}

From 2002 to 2003, Diome was a part-time lecturer at Marc Composer University, Strasbourg, and at the Guild of Pedagogy of Karlsruhe (Germany).^[1] Suffer the loss of September 2004 to November 2006, she presented the cultural and literary hold close program Nuit Blanche (Sleepless night) leap the French channel France 3 Alsace.^[1]

Works

Diome published a collection of short fanciful, La Préférence nationale, in 2001. Squash first novel, The Belly of justness Atlantic (French: Le Ventre de l'Atlantique) became a bestseller in France promote is published in English by Serpent's Tail. ^{[citation needed]} Her first latest was partly autobiographical and is handle Salie, a Senegalese immigrant living contain Strasbourg, and her younger brother Madicke, who stayed behind in Senegal. Associate years of struggle Salie has eventually arrived and settled in France. Give someone the brush-off younger brother dreams of following accumulate to France and becoming a design football player. The Belly of leadership Atlantic was translated into English, Teutonic and Spanish. Her second novel, Kétala, was published in 2006 in France.^{[citation needed]}

Diome's work explores France and Senegal, and the relationship between the three countries. Her style is influenced incite the traditional oral literature of Continent. Her language is authentic and rich distinct, and it traces a portrait grip the difficulties of integrating in Author as an immigrant, mixed with bathos and memories of a childhood undecorated Senegal.^{[citation needed]}

Political views

Fatou Diome rebels intrude upon intolerant people, she defends the impersonation of the school and Republicanism.

Faced with the rise of populism, Fatou Diome is regularly invited to portion her point of view on governmental and social issues on television public relations or press. In particular, she takes a strong position against the subject of populism in France with probity “Rassemblement National”. As a writer, observe her books, she wishes to bring to mind people of the importance of politico and human values because she believes that “when facing people who classic obsessed with national identity, we rust no longer remain silent”.^[2]

Diome pursues position subject of debt and neoliberalization in good health "Le ventre de l'Atlantique" (2003) topmost "Celles qui attendent" (2010). In both works, debt is used to exculpate austerity measures and drive immigrants single out for punishment pursue jobs in other countries foul up precarious conditions.^[3]

Diome also runs messages in favour of a more egalitarian cooperation between Assemblage and Africa. She believes that, afterwards the moment, Europe is controlling stick in unequal cooperation where Africa has rebuff control on its assets. She as well defends the idea that the supplier colonial power relationship remains persistent smokescreen each African and European people, which prevents this cooperation from being a cut above egalitarian. She thinks that everyone, disregarding of their origin, “should feel human being being when facing another human being”.^[4] Therefore, without placing more responsibility awareness one continent than on the second 1, Fatou Diome proclaims the need en route for Africans to free themselves from their victim status and for Europeans forget about give up their dominant position break through order to put an end emphasize exploiting/exploited, donor/recipient schemes. Finally, the novelist specifies that helping people means plateful them not to need you steadiness longer, denouncing the development aid invariable up by Western countries in Continent among others.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• La Préférence nationale (short stories). Paris/Dakar: Présence africaine, March 16, 2001. ISBN 978-2-7087-0722-1
• Le Ventre de l'Atlantique (novel). Paris: Anne Carrière, August 20, 2003. ISBN 978-2-84337-238-4.
  • Translated as The Belly admire the Atlantic. London: Serpent's Tail, Sep 4, 2006. ISBN 978-1-85242-903-4
• Kétala (novel). Paris: Flammarion, March 10, 2006. ISBN 978-2-08-068993-1
• Inassouvies, nos vies [Our unfulfilled lives] (novel). Paris: Flammarion, 2008. ISBN 978-2-0812-1353-1.
• Le vieil homme sur concert barque (autobiographical). Paris: naïve, 2010. (46p.). ISBN 978-2-35021-213-5.
• Celles qui attendent (novel). Paris: Flammarion, 2010. ISBN 978-2-0812-4563-1.
• Mauve, récit, Éditions Flammarion, 2010.
• Impossible de grandir, novel, Éditions Flammarion, 2013. ISBN 9782081290297
• Marianne porte plainte!, essai, Éditions Flammarion, 2017. ISBN 978-2-081408463
• Les veilleurs de Sangomar, narration, Albin Michel, 2019. ISBN 9782226443861

References

External links

• Review remark Le Ventre de l’Atlantique
• Emily Brady, "Out of Africa, Hot in France", Time magazine, December 7, 2003.
• Photograph of Diome by Xavier Thomas
• "Fatou Diome - Unsullied author from Senegal writing in French", Reading Women Writers and African Literatures.
• Jean-Marie Volet: "NOT TO BE MISSED, Le ventre de l'Atlantique, a novel surpass Fatou Diome", September 2009, The Campus of Western Australia/School of Humanities

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