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

• (English) Peter France, The new Oxford companion to literature in French, Clarendon Press, 1995, p. 90
• (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" (in French). Sud Quotidien. 29 October 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
2. "African Writers Honour President". Modern Ghana. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009.

External links

• Alioune Badara Bèye sur le site du FESMAN 2009