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French-Senegalese writer

Fatou Diome (born in Niodior) is a French-Senegalese writer known for her best-selling novel The Belly of the Atlantic, which was published in ^{[citation needed]} Her work explores immigrant life in France, and the relationship between France and Africa.

Fatou Diome lives in Strasbourg, France.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Fatou Diome was born in Niodior on the island of the same name in the Sine-Saloum Delta. She was raised by her grandmother and went to school and became passionate about French literature. At the age of 13 she left Niodior and continued her education in M'Bour.

Biography channel ghost kit She regularly participates in conferences and international events, sharing her experience and reflections on the issues that are close to her heart. Read the french version. Fatou Diome, writer, essayist, and activist, is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Francophone literature. Political views [ edit ].

Later she moved to Dakar to study at the university, supporting herself by working as a housekeeper.^{[citation needed]}

In , she married a Frenchman and moved to France. Rejected by her traditional Serer family and by his family, she divorced two years later.^{[citation needed]} In Diome moved to Strasbourg to study at the University of 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 Literary and Cinematographic Work of Ousmane Sembène).^{[citation needed]}

From to , Diome was a part-time lecturer at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, and at the Institute of Pedagogy of Karlsruhe (Germany).^[1] From September to November , she presented the cultural and literary television program Nuit Blanche (Sleepless night) on the French channel France 3 Alsace.^[1]

Works

Diome published a collection of short stories, La Préférence nationale, in Her first novel, The Belly of the Atlantic (French: Le Ventre de l'Atlantique) became a bestseller in France and is published in English by Serpent's Tail.

^{[citation needed]} Her first novel was partly autobiographical and is about Salie, a Senegalese immigrant living in Strasbourg, and her younger brother Madicke, who stayed behind in Senegal. After years of struggle Salie has finally arrived and settled in France.

Fatou diome biography channel 6 The Prize from the French Coalition for Cultural Diversity that she receives this year recognizes her work, which aims to fight against cultural homogenization and to promote the idea that culture is a vehicle for dialogue and social transformation. Her language is authentic and vivid, and it traces a portrait of the difficulties of integrating in France as an immigrant, mixed with nostalgia and memories of a childhood in Senegal. At that time, she dreamed of becoming a French teacher in Senegal. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.

Her younger brother dreams of following her to France and becoming a successful football player. The Belly of the Atlantic was translated into English, German and Spanish. Her second novel, Kétala, was published in in France.^{[citation needed]}

Diome's work explores France and Senegal, and the relationship between the two countries.

Her style is influenced by the traditional oral literature of Africa.

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Her language is authentic and vivid, and it traces a portrait of the difficulties of integrating in France as an immigrant, mixed with nostalgia and memories of a childhood in Senegal.^{[citation needed]}

Political views

Fatou Diome rebels against intolerant people, she defends the role of the school and Republicanism.

Faced with the rise of populism, Fatou Diome is regularly invited to share her point of view on political and social issues on television media or press. In particular, she takes a strong position against the rise of populism in France with the “Rassemblement National”. As a writer, in her books, she wishes to remind people of the importance of republican and human values because she believes that “when facing people who are obsessed with national identity, we must no longer remain silent”.^[2]

Diome pursues the subject of debt and neoliberalization in "Le ventre de l'Atlantique" () and "Celles qui attendent" ().

In both works, debt is used to defend austerity measures and drive immigrants to pursue jobs in other countries under precarious conditions.^[3]

Diome also runs messages for a more egalitarian cooperation between Europe and Africa. She believes that, at the moment, Europe is controlling an unequal cooperation where Africa has no control on its assets.

Fatou diome biography channel Toggle the table of contents. At the age of 22, she fell in love with a Frenchman, got married and decided to follow him to Strasbourg France in At the age of 14, he left his village to continue his studies in other cities in Senegal, financing this nomadic life with occasional jobs. Novelist , short story writer.

She also defends the idea that the former colonial power relationship remains persistent on each African and European people, which prevents this cooperation from being more egalitarian. She thinks that everyone, regardless of their origin, “should feel human being when facing another human being”.^[4] Therefore, without placing more responsibility on one continent than on the other, Fatou Diome proclaims the need for Africans to free themselves from their victim status and for Europeans to give up their dominant position in order to put an end to exploiting/exploited, donor/recipient schemes.

Finally, the author specifies that helping people means helping them not to need you any longer, denouncing the development aid set up by Western countries in Africa among others.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• La Préférence nationale (short stories). Paris/Dakar: Présence africaine, March 16, ISBN&#;
• Le Ventre de l'Atlantique (novel).
  Fatou diome biography channel 7 Fatou Diome was born in on the small island of Niodior located in the delta of the Salum River, in the Serer town, southwest of Senegal. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. His style is inspired by the traditional art of storytelling, as still practiced in Africa. She also defends the idea that the former colonial power relationship remains persistent on each African and European people, which prevents this cooperation from being more egalitarian.

  Paris: Anne Carrière, August 20, ISBN&#;

  • Translated as The Belly of the Atlantic. London: Serpent's Tail, September 4, ISBN&#;
• Kétala (novel). Paris: Flammarion, March 10, ISBN&#;
• Inassouvies, nos vies [Our unfulfilled lives] (novel). Paris: Flammarion, ISBN&#;
• Le vieil homme sur la barque (autobiographical).

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Paris: naïve, (46p.). ISBN&#;

• Celles qui attendent (novel). Paris: Flammarion, ISBN&#;
• Mauve, récit, Éditions Flammarion,
• Impossible de grandir, novel, Éditions Flammarion, ISBN&#;
• Marianne porte plainte!, essai, Éditions Flammarion, ISBN&#;
• Les veilleurs de Sangomar, novel, Albin Michel, ISBN&#;

References

External links

• Review of Le Ventre de l’Atlantique
• Emily Brady, "Out of Africa, Hot in France", Time magazine, December 7,
• Photograph of Diome by Xavier Thomas
• "Fatou Diome - An 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 by Fatou Diome", September , The University of Western Australia/School of Humanities

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