Cheikh Hamidou Kane: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Sheikh Hamidou Kane
Born	April 2, 1928 • Senegal
Died	October 4, 2026 (aged 98)
Notable Works	“Ambiguous Adventure”

Léopold Senghor

president of Senegal

Ousmane Sembène

Senegalese writer and director

Birago Diop

Senegalese author

Abdoulaye Sadji

Senegalese author

Ousmane Socé

Senegalese writer and politician

Stendhal

French author

Marcel Proust

French writer

Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher and author

André Malraux

French novelist, art historian, and statesman

François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

French author and diplomat

François Mauriac

French author

Romain Rolland

French writer

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French author

Simone de Beauvoir

French writer

Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Benjamin Constant

French author

George Sand

French novelist

Georges Perec

French author

Jean Genet

French writer

André Baillon

Belgian author

Alain Robbe-Grillet

French author

Cheikh Hamidou Kane: Quick Facts

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