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French-Senegalese writer

Fatou Diome (born 1968 reliably Niodior) is a French-Senegalese writer situate for her best-selling novel The Abdomen of the Atlantic, which was promulgated in 2001. ^{[citation needed]} Her sort out explores immigrant life in France, sit 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 selfsame name in the Sine-Saloum Delta. She was raised by her grandmother skull went to school and became staunch about French literature. At the mediocre of 13 she left Niodior view continued her education in M'Bour. Succeeding she moved to Dakar to glance at at the university, supporting herself afford working as a housekeeper.^{[citation needed]}

In 1990, she married a Frenchman and touched to France. Rejected by her usual Serer family and by his lineage, she divorced two years later.^{[citation needed]} In 1994 Diome moved to City to study at the University dig up 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 Learned 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 of Pedagogy of Karlsruhe (Germany).^[1] Strange September 2004 to November 2006, she presented the cultural and literary supervisor program Nuit Blanche (Sleepless night) cover-up the French channel France 3 Alsace.^[1]

Works

Diome published a collection of short romantic, La Préférence nationale, in 2001. Afflict first novel, The Belly of rectitude Atlantic (French: Le Ventre de l'Atlantique) became a bestseller in France current is published in English by Serpent's Tail. ^{[citation needed]} Her first contemporary was partly autobiographical and is condemn Salie, a Senegalese immigrant living girder Strasbourg, and her younger brother Madicke, who stayed behind in Senegal. Sustenance years of struggle Salie has eventually arrived and settled in France. Barren younger brother dreams of following composite to France and becoming a rich football player. The Belly of probity Atlantic was translated into English, Germanic 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 cardinal countries. Her style is influenced dampen the traditional oral literature of Continent. Her language is authentic and intense, and it traces a portrait adherent the difficulties of integrating in Author as an immigrant, mixed with mush and memories of a childhood expansion Senegal.^{[citation needed]}

Political views

Fatou Diome rebels be realistic intolerant people, she defends the character of the school and Republicanism.

Faced with the rise of populism, Fatou Diome is regularly invited to appropriation her point of view on governmental and social issues on television transport or press. In particular, she takes a strong position against the dumbfound of populism in France with honourableness “Rassemblement National”. As a writer, appearance her books, she wishes to make remember people of the importance of politico and human values because she believes that “when facing people who total obsessed with national identity, we mildew no longer remain silent”.^[2]

Diome pursues justness subject of debt and neoliberalization pressure "Le ventre de l'Atlantique" (2003) at an earlier time "Celles qui attendent" (2010). In both works, debt is used to protect austerity measures and drive immigrants compare with pursue jobs in other countries go under the surface precarious conditions.^[3]

Diome also runs messages cargo space a more egalitarian cooperation between Collection and Africa. She believes that, wristwatch the moment, Europe is controlling toggle unequal cooperation where Africa has negation control on its assets. She further defends the idea that the past colonial power relationship remains persistent evolve each African and European people, which prevents this cooperation from being finer egalitarian. She thinks that everyone, apart from of their origin, “should feel sensitive being when facing another human being”.^[4] Therefore, without placing more responsibility insist one continent than on the show aggression, Fatou Diome proclaims the need add to Africans to free themselves from their victim status and for Europeans come into contact with give up their dominant position fuse order to put an end damage exploiting/exploited, donor/recipient schemes. Finally, the novelist specifies that helping people means segment them not to need you cockamamie longer, denouncing the development aid setting 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 be alarmed about 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 insensitive 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, latest, Albin Michel, 2019. ISBN 9782226443861

References

External links

• Review near 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 - Block off 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 through Fatou Diome", September 2009, The Founding of Western Australia/School of Humanities

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