Franco Catanzariti is a Canadian playwright,"La vie comme exil". '' Canadian Literature'' #190, Fall 2006. whose play ''Sahel'' was staged by the

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and published by

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in 2003."Play tells stark, dramatic story". ''

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'', February 15, 2003. It was a shortlisted finalist for the

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and the Governor General's Award for French-language drama, and won the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen from the

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, in 2004. The play was inspired by a trip to Ghana which Catanzariti undertook in the 1970s, during which he spent time among the nomadic Wodaabe people, and depicted a mother and daughter struggling to survive after being abandoned in the desert. The play's set design and construction was complex, consisting mainly of sand but requiring the ability to pull objects into "vortexes" of sand and out of view. At the time of the play's production, Catanzariti was living in Ailsa Craig, Ontario. As of 2017, he was listed as a director of the Burundi Education Fund, a charitable organization based in London, Ontario."Federal Corporation Information - 797786-7: Burundi Education Fund"

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