2023-11-09 17:10:08
In Dakar, for Writer’s Day, pastoralist Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo won the Bernard Dadié prize for all of her work. It was in a writers’ house where Afrique Littéraire had arranged to meet and in the presence of high-ranking Senegalese officials that the handover took place.
Accustomed to this type of encounter and become the adopted daughter of the country of Teranga, the Guinean poet who has tried all genres will not return empty-handed once again.
After the Mamadou Traoré Diop Prize obtained during the African writer’s days in Senegal 2016 and the Prix Birago Diop for the best Senegal story the following year, the storyteller, descendant of the founder of the town of Labé, adds this prize to her collection which joins others, the most recent of which are: 2018 Femina Prize for the advancement of women
Moussolou Prize 2018.
Next to the pen, KZD is a convinced ecologist and has a green thumb, just as she tries to safeguard local know-how such as: hairdressing, cooking.
Zeinab is a mother of four children and a caring grandmother to the host of grandchildren and nephews who populate her home.
Note that the latest literary gesture of the Grand Royale of Guinean literature has just been published and is entitled “The secret” “Gundoo”, an innovative work available in French and in the popular national language.
The presentation of this work was to take place last Saturday at the Mariador Palace but was postponed indefinitely for security reasons linked to the escape of XXL detainees involved in the trial of the September 28 massacres.
The recipient dedicated the prize to Guinean culture.
Reminder, in her career the writer has published around twenty works.
Tkillah Tounkara
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