Khady Sylla’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Senegalese writer
Was Film director
Writer
From Senegal
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Literature
Gender female
Birth

27 March 1963, Dakar

Death

8 October 2013, Dakar
(aged 50 years)

Star sign Aries

Khady Sylla (Dakar, March 27, 1963 – Dakar, October 8, 2013) was a Senegalese writer of two novels, short work, and film.

Life

Born in Dakar, she studied at the École Normale Supérieure where she became interested in a literary career. She later became one of a small number of African women film makers. Her An Open Window won a first film prize at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film [1].

Works

Novels
  • Le Jeu de la Mer [The Game of the Sea]. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1992. ISBN 2-7384-1563-6
Films
  • An Open Window
  • Les Bijoux-(1997), Short film
  • Colobane Express (1999), docu-drama about the passengers of a Senegalese bus.
  • Une fenêtre ouverte (2005), documentary short (52 min.)
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