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Fatou Diome
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1968
Fatou Diome is a French-Senegalese writer known for her best-selling novel The Belly of the Atlantic, which was published in 2003. Her work explores immigrant life in France, and the relationship between France and Africa. Fatou Diome lives in Strasbourg, France.
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About Fatou Diome
Birth
1968
First book
2003
Years writing
23
Fatou Diome is a French-Senegalese writer known for her best-selling novel The Belly of the Atlantic, which was published in 2003. Her work explores immigrant life in France, and the relationship between France and Africa. Fatou Diome lives in Strasbourg, France.
Fatou Diome was born on the picturesque Senegalese island of Niodior in 1968.
Her most acclaimed work, Le Ventre de l'Atlantique, deeply explores the experience of emigration.
Beyond being a writer and poet, she has dedicated much of her life to university teaching.
Her literature masterfully addresses social conditions and the reality of Africans in the world.
Throughout her prolific career, she has published a total of eleven literary works.
