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Born	December 11, 1906 • Dakar • Senegal
Died	November 25, 1989 (aged 82) • Dakar • Senegal • (Anniversary in 4 days)
Movement / Style	Negritude
Subjects Of Study	Wolof • folklore

Léopold Senghor

president of Senegal

David Diop

Senegalese author

Bernard Binlin Dadié

Ivorian author

Sheikh Hamidou Kane

Senegalese author

Ousmane Socé

Senegalese writer and politician

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

Paul Verlaine

French poet

François Mauriac

French author

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

Henri Michaux

French painter and poet

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Hervé Bazin

French author

Alfred de Musset

French author

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Canadian poet

Christian Dotremont

Belgian author

Conrad Detrez

Belgian author

Marie Gevers

Belgian writer

Aimé Césaire

Martinican author and politician

Tchicaya U Tam’si

Congolese poet

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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