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Born January 1, 1923 • Ziguinchor • Senegal
Died June 9, 2007 or June 10, 2007 • Dakar • Senegal
Notable Works novella • “Black Docker” • “Black Girl” • “Camp de Thiaroye” • “Ceddo” • “God’s Bits of Wood” • “Guelwaar” • “Mandabi” • “Moolaadé”
Movement / Style Third Cinema

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Abdoulaye Sadji
Senegalese author
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
American author
Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin
American writer and director
John Sayles
John Sayles
American director, screenwriter, and actor
Kitano Takeshi
Japanese actor, director, writer, and television personality
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
British actor, author, and director
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Djebar, Assia
Assia Djebar
Algerian writer and filmmaker
Antonio Skármeta
Chilean novelist, screenwriter, and diplomat
Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
Marcel Paul Pagnol
French author and director
Marguerite Duras
French author
Sheikh Hamidou Kane
Senegalese author
Ousmane Socé
Senegalese writer and politician
Émile Erckmann
French author
Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author