Fall, Aminata Sow

LC control no.	n 78018524
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ3989.2.F177
Personal name heading	Fall, Aminata Sow *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Sow Fall, Aminata
Associated country	Senegal
Birth date	1941-04-27
Place of birth	Saint-Louis (Senegal)
Affiliation	Mount Holyoke College Centre africain d'animation et d'échanges culturels African Bureau for the Rights of Writers University of KwaZulu-Natal
Profession or occupation	Dramatists Scholars Novelists
Found in	Her Le revenant, c1976: t.p. (Aminata Sow Fall) Borgomano, M. Voix et visages de femmes, c1989: cover (Amimata [sic] Sow Fall) p. 155 (Sow Fall, Aminata) Her Douceurs du bercail, c1998: t.p. (Aminata Sow Fall) p. 4 of cover (b. Apr. 27, 1941, Saint-Louis, Sénégal) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Sow Fall, Aminata; fiction writer, dramatist, literary scholar; born 27 April 1941 in Saint-Louis, Senegal; obtained her baccalaureate and went to France to train as an interpreter; conferred an honorary doctoral degree by the Mount Holyoke College (1997); taught at a high school and sometimes at the Institut Cestil Directrice du Centre d'Études des Civilisations; established Centre Africain d'Échanges et d'Animations Culturels (CAEC) and Bureau Africain pour la Défense des Libertés de l'Écrivain (BADLE); was president of the Association des Écrivains Sénégalais (1980-1984) and distinguished visitor and speaker at the UNESCO-Suisse, Fribourg colloquium, Présence des Cultures Africaines; honored by the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Associated language	fre