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Born December 11, 1906 • Dakar • Senegal
Died November 25, 1989 (aged 82) • Dakar • Senegal
Movement / Style Negritude
Subjects Of Study Wolof • folklore
Senegalese Pres. Léopold Senghor addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1961
Léopold Senghor
president of Senegal
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David Diop
Senegalese author
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Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author
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Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Senegalese author
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Ousmane Socé
Senegalese writer and politician
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic
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Henri Michaux
French painter and poet
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Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
Hervé Bazin, 1961
Hervé Bazin
French author
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Alfred de Musset
French author
Louis-Honoré Fréchette.
Louis-Honoré Fréchette
Canadian poet
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Christian Dotremont
Belgian author
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Conrad Detrez
Belgian author
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Marie Gevers
Belgian writer
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire
Martinican author and politician
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Tchicaya U Tam’si
Congolese poet

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