Like her novel, Fatou Diome is a warm blend of Africa and France, of small town and large city. She was born in 1968 in Niodior, a small island in Senegal. At 22, she moved to France, where she pursued a doctorate in modern literature at the University of Strasbourg. Her first novel, Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (Anne Carrière, 2003; Serpent’s Tail, 2004), was a great commercial and media success and has been excerpted in the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing, to be published in May 2009. Her other works include the novel Kétala (Flammarion, 2006) and a collection of short-stories entitled La Préférence Nationale (Présence africaine, 2001).
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