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Informationen zum Autor Born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1946, Boubacar Boris Diop is widely regarded as one of the most important novelists and intellectuals in Africa. Vera Wülfing-Leckei received an M.A. Classics and Modern Languages from Oxford University. She has translated numerous works from English to German, including an abridged version of Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom . Currently, she is translating "Parole chantée et communication social chez les Wolof du Sénégal" by Momar Cissé. El Hadji Moustapha Diop has translated several published works, including those of Boubacar Boris Diop and Ousmane Sembène. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student of French Studies at the University of Western Ontario, focusing on Francophone postcolonial studies. Klappentext The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo--The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to reach his grandson. In the absence of word from Badou, the "Seven Notebooks" that Faye fills with letters to Badou form the only possible means of communication between the two. Zusammenfassung The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to communicate with his grandson before he dies.
