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The writer Cheikh Hamidou Kane, who will be in La Mar de Musicas 2012 is a candidate for the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. The Senegalese has written books like The guardians of the temple and the ambiguous adventure.
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, former minister, politician and author of the novels The guardians of the temple and the ambiguous adventure, the latter considered one of the most important books of African literature and on which were written hundreds of articles and studies.
The writer will be in Cartagena on Monday July 23 in a ceremony held at the festival in collaboration with Casa Africa.
In his books have the news media like Le Monde, referring to the ambiguous adventure is: A reference for understanding the impact of the Western world in the African context, as well as one of the best novels written in the continent ...
With half a century, preserved in full force and continues to be translated and published in many countries and has guaranteed to the author's entry into the history of literature.
This man born in Matam, Fouta, in northern Senegal, on the banks of the river of the same name, belonging to the Fulani ethnic group, has the surname of his paternal grandfather and being the second child from mother, as mandated Samba Peul tradition, hence its nickname Sam'Matam (Samba de Matam).
In addition, Kane Diallo belongs to the clan, his true patronymic, so joining this, according to African tradition, his name is Samba Diallo, the same as used for the protagonist of The ambiguous adventure.
He won the first Grand Prix of Literature of Black Africa, in 1961, provided novel and is considered by the South African Nobel John Maxwell Coetzee as the forerunner of modern African fiction.
It combines a literary legacy of universal significance with a remarkable humanist path to be a kind of father he obeisance most contemporary African writers.
His candidacy has been supported by colleagues as Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo or Fatou He gave me, the president of the International Organization of la Francophonie, Abdou Diouf, and universities such as Lorraine, West India, Cadiz, Buea (Cameroon), Brigham Young, Cergy-Pontoise, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Delhi and Dakar.
During his time as a student in France, Hamidou Kane was fully involved in the struggle for independence. Was one of the leaders of the Student Federation of Black Africa and founding member (with Abdoulaye Wade and Joseph Ki-Zerbo) of National Liberation Movement.
When you return to Senegal in 1959 became part of the Cabinet of Ministry of Economic Development and is appointed by the government of Mamadou Dia first governor of the region of ¨ s Cynthia, 32 years.
Two years later, he published The ambiguous adventure appointed High Commissioner and General (ministerial rank).
In 1962 the crisis occurs Senghor and Dia-Hamidou Kane resigns ...
Senghor of Senegal wanted him away not to testify in the process of Mamadou Dia.
Exile and worked at the UNICEF regional office based in Lagos (Nigeria), was director of that organization for West Africa and Central, which led him to know much of the continent, and not return until 1973 to meet again with Senghor, but not at home but outside, in Abidjan.
Hamidou Kane did not return from exile until 13 years later: in July 1976 and rejoined government service.
President Senghor left office on December 31, 1980.
Kane works as Minister for Cooperation until 1988 and then removed.
Seven years later, he published The guardians of the temple, three decades had passed since the adventure ambiguous.
Alongside his literary functions, policies and administrative Hamidou was also involved in the NGO world (he was founder of ENDA Third World) and played a key role in the rescue and dissemination of the Charter of Kurukugan leak (Mande Charter) with griots, lawyers, Linga ¼ ists, anthropologists, historians and philosophers.
In 2009 he was elected vice president of The National Foundation Senegal responsible for providing a modern constitution and democratic consensus and a program of economic and social worth of the third millennium.
In Spain, Hamidou Kane participated in the last African International Book Fair (SILA) in Tenerife, where he received a reward for his literary career and life and participate in our festival this summer in the program Lyrics African team which has Africa House put in contact with African writers Spanish readers over the past three years.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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