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Diop, Boubacar Boris, 1946-

LC control no.n 82094097
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ3989.2.D553 French
PL8785.9.D56 Wolof
Personal name headingDiop, Boubacar Boris, 1946-
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Variant(s)Jóob, Bubakar Bóris
Jóob, Bubakar Bóris, 1946-
Other standard no.0000000121417292
84249606
Q894953
Associated countrySenegal
Birth date1946-10-26
Place of birthDakar (Senegal)
AffiliationLycée Van Vollenhoven
Sud Magazine
Profession or occupationNovelists
Playwrights
Essayists
Novelists
Dramatists
Essayists
Journalists
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Found inHis Le temps de Tamango, c1981: t.p. (Boubacar Boris Diop) cover (b. 10-26-46 Dakar)
Dictionary of African biography, via Oxford African American Studies Center database, accessed January 14, 2014 (Diop, Boubacar Boris; fiction writer, dramatist, essayist, print journalist; born 26 October 1946 in Dakar, Senegal; attended the famous Lycée Van Vollenhoven in Dakar; his second novel, Les tambours de la mémoire (The Drums of Memory, 1987) won the Grand Prize of the Senegalese Republic; the very successful Le cavalier et son ombre (The Horseman and His Shadow, 1997), which won the Prix Tropiques; was rewarded with the Grand Prize for Black African Literature; started Sud Magazine, which became the first nongovernmental daily paper in Senegal)
Bàmmeelu Kocc Barma, 2017: title page (Bubakar Bóris Jóob)
Doomi golo, c2003: t.p. (Bubakar Bóris Jóob)
Wikipedia, viewed January 29, 2022 (Boubacar Boris Diop; author of Doomi Golo, one of the only novels ever written in Wolof)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boubacar_Boris_Diop>
The Neustadt Prizes website, August 1, 2023: 2022 Neustadt Prize (Boubacar Boris Diop; Winner of the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature; award-winning Senegalese author Boubacar Boris Diop (b. 1946) is one of today's most prominent African novelists, playwrights, and essayists)
Associated languagefre
wol
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