Aïchetou Mint Ahmedou is a

Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...

n writer, working in

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. Born in

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, Ahmedou completed her primary and secondary schooling in

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, where she then studied the sciences. She has written poetry, articles, and stories, many of which have been published locally in Nouakchott, and has produced translations of

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poetry as well. In the 1990s she began work on a novel, ''La couleur de vent'', which was published in 2014. She has spoken about her work at literary conferences.

Publications

* ''La couleur du vent : il était une fois à Nouakchott : roman'', 2011

References

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