WAminata Aidara is an Italian-Senegalese journalist, short story writer and novelist.
WMariama Bâ was a Senegalese author and feminist, whose French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim.
WSokhna Benga (Mbengue) is a Senegalese novelist and poet. She writes in French.
WJacqueline Fatima Bocoum is a former journalist turned author from the West African state of Senegal. She is also the director of the media company Com 7 As a journalist, Jacqueline worked for R.T.S. and Sud FM before becoming Programme Director and Director of Information at Radio Nostalfie. From a political perspective, her father was a bureaucrat under President Léopold Sédar Senghor. Jacqueline lays a critical eye on her father's administrative position as one typical product of the political structure prevalent during those times, in the foreword of her first novel. She, however, has an undeniable admiration for him.
WKen Bugul is the pen name of Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. In the Wolof language, her pen name means "one who is unwanted".
WAïssatou Cissé or Aissatou Cisse is a Senegal writer with disabilities who became an advisor to the President of Senegal.
WAïssatou Diamanka-Besland is a Senegalese writer. She writes about immigration in France and Africa. She is a French-Senegalese citizen and she was born in 1972 in Pikine, Senegal. At the age of 12 to 13 she begins to write her first texts and she begins to be very passionate about literature.
WFatou Diome is a French-Senegalese writer known for her best-selling novel The Belly of the Atlantic, which was published in 2001. Her work explores immigrant life in France, and the relationship between France and Africa. Fatou Diome lives in Strasbourg, France.
WBoubacar Boris Diop is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements, is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays. Doomi Golo (2006) is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof; it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.
WCheikh Tidiane Gaye is a Senegalese-Italian writer. His first novel was published in Italy, with the title Il giuramento, followed by Mery principessa albina (2005), and Il canto del Djali, published by Edizioni dell'Arco.
WKhady Hane is an author from Senegal. She received her education from the University of Paris and lives in Paris. She is president of an association called "Black Arts and Culture" and has written a number of novels in French.
WCheikh Hamidou Kane is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë, about the interactions of western and African cultures. Its hero is a Fulani boy who goes to study in France. There, he loses touch with his Islamic faith and his Senegalese roots.
WMame Seck Mbacké was a Senegalese writer. She wrote in French and in Wolof.
WFelwine Sarr is a Senegalese scholar, musician and writer born in Sine Saloum, Niodior Arrondissement. He studied Economics and taught at the Gaston Berger University (Senegal) until his recent move to Duke.
WOusmane Sembène, often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film". Descended from a Serer family through his mother from the line of Matar Sène, Ousmane Sembène was particularly drawn to Serer religious festivals especially the Tuur festival.
WAminata Sow Fall is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. She is considered "the first published woman novelist from francophone Black Africa".