WRITER

Aminata Sow Fall

1941 - Today

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Aminata Sow Fall (born April 27, 1941) is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aminata Sow Fall has received more than 51,016 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Aminata Sow Fall is the 4,993rd most popular writer (down from 4,805th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Senegal (down from 24th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Senegalese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 51k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La grève des bàttu, ou, Les dèchets humains
1980
Emergency
Social conditions, Social problems, Reference
2000
L' appel des arènes
Senegalese fiction (French)
1982
Douceurs du Bercail
1998
Le revenant
1976
The beggar's strike, or, The dregs of society
1981
Empire of Illusion
2017
The Beggars' Strike
Senegalese fiction (English), Translations from French, Senegalese fiction (French)
1979
Emergency
Social conditions, Social problems, Reference
2000
L' appel des arènes
Senegalese fiction (French)
1982
Douceurs du Bercail
1998
Le revenant
Fiction
1976
The Beggars' Strike
Senegalese fiction (English), Translations from French, Senegalese fiction (French)
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 4,993 out of 7,302. Before her are Kenneth Copeland, Bernard Clavel, Johann Gottfried Seume, Rosa Chacel, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Peter F. Hamilton. After her are Eleanor Farjeon, Alki Zei, Vladimir Oravsky, José Bergamín, Peter Englund, and Henjō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 428. Before her are Václav Mašek, Alf Clausen, Gilbert Kaplan, Zlatko Škorić, Wasim Sajjad, and Gjermund Eggen. After her are Mario Trevi, Stokely Carmichael, Doug Rogers, Paul Theroux, Nikolai Gubenko, and Iván Menczel.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 25 out of 138. Before her are Mame Madior Boye (1940), Mamadou Dia (1910), Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946), Safi Faye (1943), Théodore-Adrien Sarr (1936), and El Hadji Diouf (1981). After her are Ibrahim Ba (1973), Didier Raoult (1952), Habib Thiam (1933), Guirane N'Daw (1984), Birago Diop (1908), and Jacques Diouf (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Senegal

Among writers born in Senegal, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 3. Before her are Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906), and Mariama Bâ (1929). After her are Birago Diop (1908), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928), Fatou Diome (1968), Khady Sylla (1963), and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (1990).

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