Nafissatou Niang Diallo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nafissatou Niang Diallo

Senegalese writer

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1941

Place of Birth: Dakar, Senegal

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1982

Profession: writer, novelist, autobiographer

Nationality: Senegal

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Nafissatou Niang Diallo (11 March 1941 – 1982) was a Senegalese writer who wrote in French.
After studying in Toulouse, France, she began writing.
She was active in social services both as a midwife and as director of a maternal and child health centre, and describes in her writing both traditional and modern aspects of Senegalese society.
Her autobiography De Tilène au Plateau, a Dakar childhood, published in 1975, was among the first works of literature to be published by a Senegalese woman, after which she published three novels before her early death at the age of 41.