A perennial Nobel candidate who writes in this language broke onto the literary scene with 1957's The Thirst; her other works include the short story collection Children of the New World. Between Life and Death and Weekend Quartet are among the plays written in this language by an author who did not use it for his Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather. Modou's transgressions are revealed after his death in an epistle by his wife Ramatoulaye in the novel (*) So Long a L
A perennial Nobel candidate who writes in this language broke onto the literary scene with 1957's The Thirst; her other works include the short story collection Children of the New World. Between Life and Death and Weekend Quartet are among the plays written in this language by an author who did not use it for his Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather. Modou's transgressions are revealed after his death in an epistle by his wife Ramatoulaye in the novel (*) So Long a Letter, which was originally written in this language. The essay "Black Orpheus" analyzed a literary movement that used this language and was founded by authors from Guiana, Martinique, and Senegal. For 10 points, Assia Djebar, Mariama Ba, and the leaders of the négritude movement wrote in which language, also used by their home countries' former colonizers?
A perennial Nobel candidate who writes in this language broke onto the literary scene with 1957's The Thirst; her other works include the short story collection Children of the New World.
French [or Français] (the plays are by Gao Xingjian)