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Khady Sylla

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Khady Sylla is a Senegalese writer of two novels, short work, and film who was born March 27, 1963 in Dakar. She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérièure where she became interested in a literary career. She later became one of a small number of African women film makers. Her An Open Window won a first film prize[1]. She currently teaches German at Cheikh Anta Diop University.

Bibliography

  • Le Jeu de la Mer [The Game of the Sea]. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992. (160p.). ISBN 2738415636 (Novel)

Film

  • An Open Window
  • Les Bijoux-(1997), Short film
  • Colobane Express (1999), docu-drama about the passengers of a Senegalese bus.