Alioune Badara Bèye
Alioune Badara Bèye (28 September 1945 – 1 December 2024) was a Senegalese civil servant, novelist, playwright, poet and publisher.
In relation to his role as President of L'Association des écrivains du Sénégal (The Senegal Writers' Association),[1] Bèye was the general coordinator of the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (Black Arts World Festival) in Dakar on 14 December 2009.[2]
Bèye was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal on 28 September 1945, and died on 1 December 2024, at the age of 79.[3]
Works
[edit]- Dialawali, terre de feu ("Dialawali, Land of Fire"), 1980 (theatre)
- Le sacre du cedo ("Cedo Coronation") 1982 (theatre)
- Maba, laisse le Sine ("Maba, leaves the Sine"), 1987 (theatre)
- Nder en flammes ("Nder in Flames"), 1988 (theatre)
- Demain, la fin du monde: un avertissement à tous les dictateurs du monde ("Tomorrow, the End of the World: a Warning of all the World's Dictators"), 1993 (theatre)
- Les larmes de la patrie ("Tears from Homeland"), 2003 (theatre)
- Raki : fille lumière ("Raki: Light Daughter"), 2004 (novel)
- Les bourgeons de l'espoir ("Buds of Hope"), 2005 (poetry)
- De l'uniforme à la plume ("From Uniform to Pen"), 2008
Bibliography
[edit]- (in English) Peter France, The new Oxford companion to literature in French, Clarendon Press, 1995, p. 90
- (in French) Babacar Sall, Poésie du Sénégal, Silex/Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, 1988, p. 5
References
[edit]- ^ "Une autre manière de rétablir l'histoire". Sud Quotidien (in French). 29 October 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "African Writers Honour President". Modern Ghana. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
- ^ "Alioune Badara Bèye tire sa révérence". Enquête+. 2 December 2024. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
External links
[edit]- Alioune Badara Bèye sur le site du FESMAN 2009 (in French)
- Alioune Badara Bèye discography at Discogs
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