Williams Sassine - (né en 1944 à Kankan en Guinée, mort le 9 février 1997 à Conakry) est un écrivain guinéen francophone. * "Le Zéhéros n'est pas n'importe qui" (1985) * "Wirriyamu" (1976) (in 1980, an English language translation by Clive Wake and John Reed was published) Some of Sassine's works have been translated into English, Spanish, and Russian. As an editor he remained critical of Toure as chief editor for the satirical "Le Lynx" paper. Few of his works have been translated into English, but "Wirriyamu" was published in an English translation in 1980. His novel "Le jeune homme de sable" has been regarded as among the best twentieth century African novels. As a novelist he wrote of marginalized characters, but he became more optimistic on Toure's death. Sassine was an expatriate African writer in France after leaving Guinea when it received independence under Sékou Touré. His father was Lebanese Christian and his mother was a Guinean of Muslim heritage. Williams Sassine (1944, Kankan, Guinea – February 9 1997, Conakry, Guinea) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French.
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