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Amadou Lamine Sall

Amadou Lamine Sall
Amadou Lamine Sall
Amadou Lamine Sall
BornAmadou Lamine Sall
(1951-03-26)March 26, 1951
Kaolack, Senegal
Notable awards

Amadou Lamine Sall, born on March 26, 1951, in Kaolack, Senegal, is one of the major poets of contemporary French-speaking Africa.[1] Leopold Senghor said of him that he was the most talented poet of his generation. He is the recipient of the 2018 edition of the Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry.

Biography

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Amadou Lamine Sall born in 1951 in Kaolack, is the Founder of the African House of International Poetry,[2] and he presides over the destinies of the International Biennale of Poetry in Dakar, Senegal. Winner in 1991 of the Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises, awarded by the French Academy[3] He is the author of numerous anthologies of poetry that have been translated into several languages. In October 2008 he wrote several poems about Arthur Rimbaud while he was in residence at the Maison Rimbaud in Charleville-Mézières. Amadou Lamine Sall always writes his poems in free verse, with very little punctuation.

Amadou Lamine Sall's poetry is on the curriculum of many universities and his writing is also the subject of several doctoral theses.

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  1. ^ Sana Camara, La poésie sénégalaise d'expression française (Senegalese poetry of French expression), 1945-1982, L'Harmattan, 2011, p. 164-180 ISBN 9782296102996
  2. ^ "Maison africaine de la poésie internationale". Archived from the original on 2018-12-27. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
  3. ^ Académie française