Charles Carrère (9 December 1928 – 17 January 2020) was a

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Senegalese Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

poet who specialized in

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Biography

Carrère frequently wrote on the concept of

Négritude ''Négritude'' (from French "Nègre" and "-itude" to denote a condition that can be translated as "Blackness") is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African ...

, the movement of French African writers and poets to express their French identities. The movement was started by

Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ...

. He was Vice-President of the Maison Internationale de Poésie de Bruxelles when

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was serving as President. Carrère arranged the Festival international de poésie de Saint-Louis du Sénégal from 3 to 5 December 2015, with secondary school and university students competing in a poetry competition. The first place prize was called the "Prix Charles Carrère". He was an honorary member of the Maison Internationale des Poètes et des Ecrivains in

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. Charles Carrère died on 17 January 2020 at the age of 91.

Works

*''Océanes'' (1979) *''Lettres de Gorée'' (1982) *''Mémoires de la pluie'' (1983) *''Insula'' (1988) *''Noël pour Malaïka'' (1988) *''D’écume et de granit'' (1988) *''Nouvelle anthologie de la poésie nègre et malgache'' (1990) *''Mémoires d’un Balayeur suivi de Contes et Nouvelles'' (1996) *''Hivernage'' (1999)

References

1928 births 2020 deaths Senegalese poets {{Senegal-writer-stub