Tierno Monénembo

Thierno Saïdou Diallo, usually known as Tierno Monénembo (born 1947), is a Francophone Guinean novelist. Born in Guinea, he later lived in Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, and finally France since 1973. He has written eight books in all and was awarded the 2008 prix Renaudot for The King of Kahel (le Roi de Kahel).

His most noted book is said to be Pelourinho, which was set in Brazil. For the English-speaking world his significance was more for being one of the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." From this came the novel The Oldest Orphan; the 2004 translation by the University of Nebraska may be his most successful book in the English language. In November 2010 the English translation of le Roi de Kahel (The King of Kahel) was published by AmazonCrossing, Amazon.com's translated fiction publishing arm, it was the new publishing companies first translated and published book.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ *AmazonCrossing, complete review, 19 May 2010.
   The King of Kahel and AmazonCrossing, complete review, 24 August 2010.

External links

• University of Nebraska page on The Oldest Orphan

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