12 Facts About Fatou Diome

Fatou Diome's work explores immigrant life in France, and the relationship between France and Africa.

Fatou Diome was born in Niodior on the island of the same name in the Sine-Saloum Delta.

Fatou Diome was raised by her grandmother and went to school and became passionate about French literature.

In 1994 Diome moved to Strasbourg to study at the University of Strasbourg.

From 2002 to 2003, Fatou Diome was a part-time lecturer at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, and at the Institute of Pedagogy of Karlsruhe.

Fatou Diome published a collection of short stories, La Preference nationale, in 2001.

Fatou Diome's work explores France and Senegal, and the relationship between the two countries.

Fatou Diome's style is influenced by the traditional oral literature of Africa.

Fatou Diome's language is authentic and vivid, and it traces a portrait of the difficulties of integrating in France as an immigrant, mixed with nostalgia and memories of a childhood in Senegal.

Fatou Diome pursues the subject of debt and neoliberalization in "Le ventre de l'Atlantique" and "Celles qui attendent".

Fatou Diome believes that, at the moment, Europe is controlling an unequal cooperation where Africa has no control on its assets.

Fatou Diome defends the idea that the former colonial power relationship remains persistent on each African and European people, which prevents this cooperation from being more egalitarian.