Alioune Badara Bèye

Alioune Badara Bèye (born 28 September 1945 in Saint-Louis, Senegal) is 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 12009.[2]

Works
  • 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
  • (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
  1. "Une autre manière de rétablir l'histoire". Sud Quotidien (in French). 29 October 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
  2. "African Writers Honour President". Modern Ghana. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
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