Alioune Badara Bèye
{{Short description|Senegalese writer (1945–2024)}}
Alioune Badara Bèye (28 September 1945 – 1 December 2024) was a Senegalese civil servant, novelist, playwright, poet and publisher.
In relation to his role as President of L'Association des écrivains du Sénégal (The Senegal Writers' Association),{{cite news|url=http://www.sudonline.sn/spip.php?article21034|title=Une autre manière de rétablir l'histoire |date=29 October 2009|newspaper=Sud Quotidien|language=French|accessdate=30 October 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} Bèye was the general coordinator of the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (Black Arts World Festival) in Dakar on 14 December 2009.{{cite news|url=http://www.modernghana.com/music/9097/3/african-writers-honour-president.html|title=African Writers Honour President|date=2 May 2009|publisher=Modern Ghana|accessdate=30 October 2009}}
Bèye was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal on 28 September 1945, and died on 1 December 2024, at the age of 79.{{cite news |title=Alioune Badara Bèye tire sa révérence |url=https://www.enqueteplus.com/content/alioune-badara-beye |access-date=2 December 2024 |publisher=Enquête+ |date=2 December 2024}}
Works
- Dialawali, terre de feu ("Dialawali, Land of Fire"), 1980 (theatre)
- Le sacre du cedo ("Cedo Coronation") 1982 (theatre)
- Maba, laisse le Sine ("Maba, leaves the Sine"), 1987 (theatre)
- Nder en flammes ("Nder in Flames"), 1988 (theatre)
- Demain, la fin du monde: un avertissement à tous les dictateurs du monde ("Tomorrow, the End of the World: a Warning of all the World's Dictators"), 1993 (theatre)
- Les larmes de la patrie ("Tears from Homeland"), 2003 (theatre)
- Raki : fille lumière ("Raki: Light Daughter"), 2004 (novel)
- Les bourgeons de l'espoir ("Buds of Hope"), 2005 (poetry)
- De l'uniforme à la plume ("From Uniform to Pen"), 2008
=Bibliography=
- {{in lang|en}} Peter France, The new Oxford companion to literature in French, Clarendon Press, 1995, p. 90
- {{in lang|fr}} Babacar Sall, Poésie du Sénégal, Silex/Agence de coopération culturelle et technique, 1988, p. 5
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091105124929/http://www.fesman2009.com/fr/alioune-badara-beye Alioune Badara Bèye sur le site du FESMAN 2009] {{inlang|fr}}
- {{discogs artist|Alioune Badara Boye}}
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Category:Senegalese dramatists and playwrights
Category:People from Saint-Louis, Senegal
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