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Born January 9, 1932 (age 93) • Conakry • Guinea
Notable Works “Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali”
Subjects Of Study Africa
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Mérimée, detail of an engraving after a drawing by A. Devéria, c. 1832
Prosper Mérimée
French author
Aymé, 1967
Marcel Aymé
French author
Paul Willems
Belgian author
Roger Martin du Gard
French author
Pierre Mertens
Belgian author
Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author
Octave Mirbeau
French author
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
Tchicaya U Tam’si
Congolese poet
Hervieu, Paul
Paul Hervieu
French author
Jules Supervielle
French author
Camara Laye
Guinean author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer