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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

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

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Alfred de Musset

French author

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

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Christian Dotremont

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Conrad Detrez

Belgian author

Marie Gevers

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Aimé Césaire

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