Louis Camara

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Louis Camara (Abdou Karim Camara) is a Senegalese writer known for his short stories and tales.

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Louis Camara, [1] the storyteller of Ifà as he is popularly known, was born in 1950 at the edge of the Senegal River in Saint Louis, [2] located 270 km from Dakar, Senegal. Researcher, novelist, and short story writer, Camara is passionate about Yoruba civilization and culture which remains its main source of inspiration,. [3] He taught at Université Gaston Berger in Saint Louis, Senegal. [4] He has attended numerous festivals and was a guest at the Francophonies en Limousin Festival in Limoges, France. Until 2000, he worked at the Musée du Centre de Recherche et de documentation du Sénégal(CRDS) based in St. Louis. [5] In 1996, he was awarded the Grand Prix du président de la république pour les lettres, the highest literary honor in Senegal for his most famous work Le Choix de l’Ori, “a tale that highlights the architecture, the rhythm, and style of black Africa”, [6] according to Abdou Diouf then President of the Republic of Senegal. A revised and edited version of the novel is published by Amalion [7] in 2015.

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