Awards & Winners

Boubacar Boris Diop

Date of Birth 1946
Place of Birth Dakar
(Africa, Senegal, Dakar Region)
Nationality Senegal
Also know as Boubacar Diop
Profession Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter
Boubacar Boris Diop is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements, is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays. Doomi Golo is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof, it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.

Awards by Boubacar Boris Diop

Check all the awards nominated and won by Boubacar Boris Diop.

1998


Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire