Oumou DIARRA An author from Mali writing in French [Return to French — Page originale en français]

Diarra Oumou Armand Sangaré comes from Faraba (Mali). She was born in Belgrade in 1967 and educated in Mali, the Ivory Coast, where her father was Ambassador for Mali, and Tunisia, where she enrolled in Tunis' Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes. In 1994 she graduated from this Institute with a Diploma in Chinese and Italian. In 1996, Oumou obtained a Master in French literature, communication and cinema. During her study, she was the general secretary of the Mali Student Association in Tunisia. From 1991 to 1996 she was trained and worked at l'Office de la Radiodiffusion Télévision in Mali. Married with two children, Oumou now lives in New York [2006].

Publications

L'Afrique un défi au féminin [Africa, a challenge from a woman's point of view]. Alger: Casbah Editions (15, lot saïd Hamdine, 16012 Alger), 1999 (110p.). ISBN 9961 64 163 9. Short stories and essays.

Les Nouvelles du Pays. Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit, 2006. (128p.). ISBN: 2 7481 5112 7. Short stories.

Tradition et Modernité dans Sang des Masques de Seydou Badian et dans l'Honneur de la Tribu de Rachid Mimouni. Montréal: Fondation littéraire Fleur de Lys, 2006. (160p.). ISBN: 2 89612 165 X. Literary essay. [Preface by Nora Kazi-Tani].

The Shadow of the Mysterious Nayouma. Xlibris, 2011. (200p.). ISBN: 978-1-4568-4. Novel. [Preface by Moussa Bolly].

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