Alioune Badara Bèye (born 28 September 1945 in
Saint-Louis, Senegal
Saint Louis or Saint-Louis ( wo, Ndar), is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 km north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially ...
) is a
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤠(Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤠ðž ...
ese 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), Bèye was the general coordinator of the
Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres
The World Festival of Black Arts (French: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres), also known as FESMAN, is a month-long culture and arts festival that takes place in Africa. The festival features poetry, sculpture, painting, music, cinema, theatre, f ...
(Black Arts World Festival) in
Dakar
Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...
on 14 December 12009.
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
* Peter France, ''The new Oxford companion to literature in French'', Clarendon Press, 1995, p. 90
* Babacar Sall, ''Poésie du Sénégal'', Silex/Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, 1988, p. 5
References
External links
Alioune Badara Bèye sur le site du FESMAN 2009
1945 births
Living people
Senegalese novelists
Senegalese poets
Senegalese dramatists and playwrights
African poets
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