Khady Sylla (

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The Departments of Senegal, department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 mill ...

, March 27, 1963 – Dakar, October 8, 2013) was a

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

ese writer of two novels, short work, and filmmaker.

Life

Born in

, she studied at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' where she became interested in a literary career. She later became one of a small number of African women film makers. Her ''An Open Window'' won a first film prize at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Filmbr>
She was one of several Senegalese filmmakers mentored by French ethnologist

Jean Rouch Jean Rouch (; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French Filmmaking, filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was char ...

. She was the older sister of the filmmaker Mariama Sylla, with whom she co-directed the film ''Une simple parole''.

Works

;Novels *''Le Jeu de la Mer'' he Game of the Sea Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992. ;Films *''Les Bijoux''-(1997), Short film *''Colobane Express'' (1999), docu-drama about the passengers of a Senegalese bus. *'' Une fenêtre ouverte'' (2005), documentary short (52 min.) *''Une simple parole'' (2014)

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Khady Sylla: An author from Senegal writing in French
Senegalese novelists Senegalese film directors Senegalese women film directors 1963 births 2013 deaths People from Dakar Senegalese writers in French Senegalese women writers Academic staff of Cheikh Anta Diop University 20th-century novelists 20th-century women writers {{Senegal-writer-stub