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

Khady Sylla was born March 27, 1963 in Dakar. Following graduation (le Bac), she went to Paris where she wrote many short stories and a novel before embarking on film production. She spend her time between Dakar and Paris (1999). Khady Sylla died on October 8, 2013.

Publications

Le Jeu de la Mer [The Game of the Sea]. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992. (160p.). ISBN 2 7384 1563 6. Novel.

Aïssatou and Rama are characters in an unfinished novel. Abandoned to their fate by an author who has condemned them to oblivion, Aï and Rama discover, quite by chance, that they can escape their status as imaginary characters and fully enter into the land of the living...

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