Amadou Lamine Sall

Amadou Lamine Sall, born on March 26, 1951, in Kaolack, Senegal, is one of the major poets of contemporary French-speaking Africa. Leopold Senghor said of him that he was the most talented poet of his generation. He is the recipient of the 2018 edition of the Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry.