Occupation Writer and journalist Movies Fire of Mansare Role Novelist | Name Boubacar Diop Nationality Senegalese | |
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Education Cheikh Anta Diop University Awards Grand prix litteraire d'Afrique noire Books Murambi: The Book of Bones, Africa Beyond the Mirror, The Knight and His Shadow, Le cavalier et son ombre, Le Temps de Tamango Similar People Mongo Beti, Mansour Sora Wade, Cheikh Anta Diop, Nando dalla Chiesa |
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Boubacar Boris Diop (born 1946 in Dakar) is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements (Murambi: The Book of Bones), is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays. Doomi Golo (2006) is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof; it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.
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- Aminata traor et boubacar boris diop parlent du mali un sentiment de trahison
- Boubacar boris diop sur tv5monde
- Life and career
- Work
- Novels
- Essays
- Plays
- Political writings
- References

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Life and career

Boubacar Boris Diop was born in Dakar in 1946. He taught literature and philosophy in several Senegalese high schools. He became technical advisor at the Cultural Ministry of Senegal. He began working as a journalist and writer, writing for local newspapers, the Swiss magazine Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Paris-based magazine Afrique, perspectives et réalités.
Work

Boubacar Boris Diop is a writer. His book Murambi, le livre des ossements was written for the Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire [Rwanda: write out of a duty to remember] initiative of 1998. He is the author of Doomi Golo, a novel entirely in Wolof.

He also writes for the cinema and theatre and contributes to numerous publications, including Internazionale and Chimurenga.
Novels
