Fatou diome biography sample paper

French-Senegalese writer

Fatou Diome (born 1968 in Niodior) is a French-Senegalese writer known for her best-selling novel The Belly of the Atlantic, which was published in 2001.

^{[citation needed]} Her work explores immigrant life in France, and the relationship between France and Africa. Fatou Diome lives in Strasbourg, France.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

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

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

Fatou diome biography sample paper

At the age of 13 she left Niodior and continued her education in M'Bour. Later she moved to Dakar to study at the university, supporting herself by working as a housekeeper.^{[citation needed]}

In 1990, she married a Frenchman and moved to France.

Rejected by her traditional Serer family and by his family, she divorced two years later.^{[citation needed]} In 1994 Diome moved to Str