Catherine Shan

{{Short description|Senegalese novel and film script writer}}

{{Notability|Biography|date=March 2022}}

{{infobox person

| name = Catherine Shan

| image = Catherine N'Diaye.jpg

| caption = 2019, by Jacques Admont

| other_names = Catherine N' Diaye

| birth_date = 23rd September 1952

| death_date = 11th September 2018

| citizenship = Senegal, France

| occupation = Philosophy professor, journalist, writer

| known_for = Worked in the office of the director general of UNESCO

| notable_works = Worked as a journalist with Jeune Afrique

}}

Catherine Shan (23 September 1952 in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle – 11 September 2018) was a writer from France.

The daughter of a French mother and a Senegalese father, she was born Catherine N'Diaye in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle and grew up in Africa. From 1975 to 1981, she was a philosophy professor in France. From 1982 to 1983, she worked in the office of the director general of UNESCO. Shan then was employed as a journalist, working with the group "Jeune Afrique", for the magazine Géo, for Radio Nederlands and as a freelancer. She also wrote or directed a number of films.{{cite web |url=http://www.pol-editeur.com/index.php?spec=auteur&numauteur=145 |title=Catherine N'Diaye |publisher=Les éditions P.O.L. |language=fr}}{{cite web |url=http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/NDiayeCatherineEng.html |title=Catherine Shan N'Diaye |publisher=University of Western Australia}}