Mbaye, Marietou (Bileoma)

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MBAYE, Marietou (Bileoma)

MBAYE, Marietou (Bileoma). Also writes as Ken Bugul. Senegalese/ Beninese, b. 1948. Genres: Novels, Biography. Career: Musee du Textile, Collection d'Afrique, administrator; writer. Publications: Le Baobab Fou, 1984, trans. as The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman, 1991; Cendres et braises, 1994; Riwan ou le chemin de sable, 1999; La Folie et la Mort (novel), 2001; Je l'Autre Cote du Regard, 2002. Address: B.P. 1048, Porto Novo, Benin. Online address: kenbugul@avu.org

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