Sembène Ousmane

Japanese: サンベーヌ（英語表記）Sembène Ousmane

1923‐
Senegalese writer and film director. Born in Ziguinchor, the son of a fisherman, he served in World War II as a Senegalese sniper in the French army. In 1948 he moved to Marseille and participated in the longshoremen's union movement as a dockside laborer. In 1956 he published his autobiographical novel, The Black Stevedore, in French. Since then he has prided himself on being a modern-day griot (storyteller) and has been active as a socially conscious writer. His novels include The Trees of the Gods (1960), which was based on the 1947 Dakar-Niger railway strike, and Exchange (1966), which depicts the sorrow of ordinary people who are deceived because they are illiterate.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1923‐
セネガルの作家，映画監督。ジギンショルに漁師の息子として生まれる。第2次大戦にはフランス軍セネガル狙撃兵として参戦。1948年マルセイユに渡り，波止場人足として港湾労働者組合運動に参加。56年自伝的小説《黒い沖仲仕》をフランス語で発表。以来現代のグリオ(語部)を自負し，社会派作家として活躍。1947年のダカール･ニジェール鉄道ストライキに取材した小説《神の森の木々》(1960)，文盲ゆえにだまされる庶民の悲哀を描いた小説《為替》(1966。

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