Aïda Mady Diallo
Aida Mady Diallo | |
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| Occupation(s) | Novelist and director |
Aïda Mady Diallo is a French and Malian novelist and director. She is the author of the novel Kouty, mémoire de sang (2002).
Life and work
After her childhood in France and receiving a college degree in Uzbekistan, Diallo moved to Mali.[1]
Her novel Kouty, mémoire de sang (Kouty, Memories of Blood), tells the story of a young girl in 1980s in
crime novel and romance novel to criticise the fascination of Western readers with African violence.[4]
Diallo's television film Karim et Doussou, the story of a contemporary Malian marriage, was nominated for a 2011 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) award.[5]
Publications
- Kouty, mémoire de sang. Paris: ISBN 2-07-042251-8.
- Aïda Mady Diallo. Les Carnets de la Creation series. Montreuil, Paris: l'Oeil, 2003. ISBN 978-2912415493. A short story by Diallo with photographs by Antoine d'Agata. In French.
References
- ^ "Aïda Mady Diallo: Karim and Doussou", African Women In Cinema Blog, 18 February 2011.
- ^ Not to be Missed: "'Kouty, mémoire de sang', a novel by Aïda Mady DIALLO".
- ^ "Aïda Mady Diallo : L’Africaine de la série noire" Archived 11 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Bamako Culture.
- ^ Higginson, Pim. "Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction." Research in African Literatures 39.4 (Winter 2008): 133–146.
- ^ 22eme FESPACO", TV5 Monde. Accessed 15 November 2017.
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