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{{short description|Senegalese writer (born 1969)}}
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| workplaces = [[Alioune Diop University of Bambey]]
|awards=[[National Order of the Lion]]}}
'''Fama Diagne Sène''' (born 1969, [[Thiès]]) is a [[Senegal]]ese writer. Educated in Thiès, she became a teacher there.<ref>[http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/SeneFamaDiagneeng.html Fama Diagne Sene: An author from Senegal writing in French](in) "Femmes Ecrivaines" The [[University of Western Australia]] /French (Retrieved : 10 May 2012)</ref> [[Ken Bugul]] listed her among "illustrious women" in Senegalese literature.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://voyageamitie.org Le Voyage de l'amitié : des bibliothèques pour le Sénégal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626161924/http://voyageamitie.org/ |date=26 June 2012 }}</ref><ref>Ngue, Julie Christine Nack, [[University of California]], Los Angeles, "Critical Conditions: Refiguring Bodies of Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing", ProQuest, 2007, pp 151-219, {{ISBN|0549440461}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=i7Hd682I6e0C&dq=Fama+Diagne+S%C3%A8ne+ken+bugul&pg=PA153]</ref> In 1997, she won the presidential award for art and literature with ''Chant des ténèbres''. Born to a [[Serer people|Serer family]], Fama's controversial play ''Mbilem ou le baobab du lion'' denounces Serer tradition and received great criticism from the Serer traditionalists of Senegal. The ''Mbilim'' (variation : ''Bilim'') is a religious festival in the [[Serer calendar]], celebrated once a year and is equivalent to the new year. In pre-colonial times, right until recently, some Serer [[griot]]s were buried in the trunks of a [[Adansonia digitata|baobab tree]] rather than buried in a pyramid [[tomb]] with all the regalia dictated by [[Serer religion]]. Tomb burial and mummification were always given to the Serer nobility, but some Serer griots were not buried this way. In this play, she criticises this tradition and came head on with the [[Saltique|Serer priestly class]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} "« ''MBILEM OU LE BAOBAB DU LION'' » de FAMA DIAGNE SENE : Une confrontation entre la tradition et la modernité", [in] PiccMi.com [http://www.piccmi.com/MBILEM-OU-LE-BAOBAB-DU-LION-de-FAMA-DIAGNE-SENE-Une-confrontation-entre-la-tradition-et-la-modernite_a108.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017063354/http://www.piccmi.com/MBILEM-OU-LE-BAOBAB-DU-LION-de-FAMA-DIAGNE-SENE-Une-confrontation-entre-la-tradition-et-la-modernite_a108.html |date=17 October 2013 }}(Retrieved : 10 May 2012)</ref>
==Works==
*''Le chant des ténèbres'' [The Song of Darkness]. [[Dakar]]: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 1997 (154p.). {{ISBN|2-7236-1109-4}}. Novel.(Award-winner)
*''Humanité''. Editions Maguilen et Editions Damel, Dakar et Genève, n.d. [2002] (30p.). Poetry.
*''La momie d'Almamya'' [The mummy of Almamya]. Dakar: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 2004. (264p.). {{ISBN|2-7236-1489-1}}. Novel.
== Honours ==
Diagne Sène has been awarded the [[National Order of the Lion]]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Décret no. 2019-750 portant promotion et nomination dans l'Ordre national du Lion au titre de l'année 2019|date=1 April 2019|work=Lois et décrets|publisher=La Présidence de la République du Sénégal, La Grande Chancellerie de l'Ordre national du Lion|language=fr}}</ref> for her services to the Nation in her role as director of the library at [[Alioune Diop University of Bambey]].
==References==
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==External links==
* Etienne Texeire "LE CHANT DES TENEBRES DE FAMA DIAGNE SENE NEAS - DAKAR 1997" [in] ''Ethiopiques'' [http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?article1145] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108062816/http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?article1145 |date=8 January 2018 }}
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[[Category:Serer writers]]
[[Category:Senegalese dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Senegalese women writers]]
[[Category:Senegalese writers in French]]
[[Category:Recipients of orders, decorations, and medals of Senegal]]
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