Aminata Sow Fall
Novelist
Senegalese novelist whose 1979 novel La Grève des Bàttu (The Beggar's Strike) is a landmark of Senegalese and Francophone African literature. She was the first woman from sub-Saharan Africa to be nominated for the Prix Médicis and has received numerous international literary awards. Her work examines social inequality, tradition, and modernity in Senegalese society.