Fall, Aminata Sow
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Name (Latin)
Fall, Aminata Sow
Other forms of name
Sow Fall, Aminata
Date of birth
1941-04-27
Associated country
Senegal
Occupation
Dramatists
Novelists
Scholars
Associated Language
fre
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- 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)
- 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)