Nafissatou DIA DIOUF
    An author from Senegal
    writing in French
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    Nafissatou Dia Diouf was born in Senegal in 1973. She attended the Université de Montaigne in Bordeaux where she gained a Masters degree in Applied Foreign Languages (French, English and Italian), International Commerce, Marketing and Commercial Law, Business and Commerce. She has also completed postgraduate studies in Industrial Logistics. Since 2000 she has worked in Dakar where she is now a Manager in Sales and Accounting at SONATEL. Nafissatou Dia Diouf has been involved in various literature workshops and her writing (short stories, poetry and children literature) has attracted much interest and praize. Besides writing, she says, her other interests are reading, painting, interior decorating and travel. She has visited many countries in Africa, Europe, America and Asia, and currently lives in Dakar (2006).

    Nafissatou Dia Diouf website [Sighted 17 March 2006].

    Publications :

    Primeur, Poèmes de jeunesse (Editions Le Nègre International, 2003). Poems;

    Retour d'un si long exil et autres nouvelles [Return from so long an exile and other stories] (Dakar, Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 2001), a collection of short stories;

    Balade virtuelle autour de la planète francophone [A virtual stroll around the French planet], winner of a Radio Canada Prize in 1999;

    Pour le meilleur et surtout pour le pire [For the best and, above all, for the worst], a detective novel and winner of a Prize awarded by the Centre Culturel Français de Dakar in 1999; and

    Sables Mouvants [Shifting Sands], 1st Prize winner, 2000 Fondation Léopold S. Senghor.

    Children literature

    Dior, la jolie Sérère toucouleur. Dakar : NEAS, Coll. Sindax, 2003, 28 p.

    Les sages paroles de mon grand-père. Dakar : NEAS, Coll. Sindax, 2003, 24 p.

    Le fabuleux tour du monde de Raby. [Raby's fabulous journey around the world] Dakar: Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 2003. (30p.). ISBN: 2 7236 1490 5. [Illustrations de Samba Ndar Cissé].

    "Je découvre...l'ordinateur" and "Cytor & Tic Tic naviguent sur la toile". Dakar: Editions Tamalys, 2005. (Children book).

    Kidiwi la goutelette curieuse / Kidiwi the Nosey Little Droplet. Dakar: Tamalys (TLM) Editions, 2007. (30p.). [Illustrations de Lamine Dieme]. ISBN 2-9525152-2-0. Children book - bilingual English-French.





    Kidiwi was a little sea drop. She felt cramped in the tide where she lived with the other droplets. Cramped in the immense ocean ...

    The adventures of a little droplet, so nosey that she will discover ... a brand new world !

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