Sokhna BENGA An author from Senegal writing in French [Return to French — Page originale en français]

Sokhna Benga (or Sokhna MBengue as she is more generally known) was born in 1967 in Dakar. She comes from a Muslim family of six children. Her father is a journalist and her mother a chief cashier. She studied Law at the universities of Dakar and Brest in the early-mid 1990s, specialising in Maritime Law (DESS Droit des activités maritimes). After her sojourn in France, she returned to Dakar where she now lives. After working for three years as Publishing Manager at the Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, she is now (2006) Administrator of the Harbour Master's Office, head office of the Senegalese Merchant Service.
[List of publications, 2006.] (pdf 76k).

Publications

Le Dard du secret [The Secret Sting]. Dakar: Editions Khoudia, 1990. (157p.). ISBN 2 7384 0668 6. [Grand Prix de la commune de Dakar en 1988]. Novel.

Alfa and his sister Aïta are separated while quite young. Twenty years later they meet by chance. Not aware that they are brother and sister, they are attracted to one another and get married, but not before their father, now an important drug trafficker, has had time to intervene...

La Balade du Sabador [The Song of the Sabador]. Dakar/Corbeil-Essonnes: Le Gai Ramatou, 2000. (384p.). ISBN 2-9515062-0-1. [Grand Prix du Président de la République pour les Lettres en 2000]. Novel.

Waly Nguilane, le protégé de Roog. Vol. 1. Dakar: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 2003. (136p.). ISBN 2 7236 1580 4. Novel.

Waly Nguilane, le protégé de Roog. Vol. 2. Dakar: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 2003. (154p.). ISBN 2 7236 1581 2. Novel.

Waly Nguilane ou l'éternel miracle. Vol. 3. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2006. (322p.). ISBN 2 9515062 4 4. Novel.

Le temps a une mémoire. Le médecin perd la boule. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2007. (148p.). ISBN:978-2-916948-00-3. Detective story.

Le temps a une mémoire. Les souris jouent au chat. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2007. (132p.). ISBN:978-2-916948-01-0. Detective story.

Le temps a une mémoire. La caisse était sans proprio. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2007. (170p.). ISBN:978-2-916948-02-7. Detective story.

Bayo. Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Africaines/ CEDA, 2007. (328p.). ISBN: 978-2-863394-567-4. Novel.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

(Illustrated by Laye Samb).
1. Fadia à Poukham. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2010. (16p.).
2. Fadia et les outres du ciel. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2010. (16p.).
3. Fadia s'imagine tant de choses. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2010. (16p.).
4. Fadia connaît. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2010. (16p.).
5. Fadia connaît l'exode. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2010. (16p.).
6. Fadia connaît la grande ville. Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2010. (16p.).
7. Fadia le rêve est il possible? Dakar: Editions Oxyzone, 2010. (16p.).

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