Catherine Shan

Catherine Shan (born 1952) is a writer from France.

The daughter of a French mother and a Senegalese father, she was born Catherine N'Diaye and grew up in Africa. From 1975 to 1981, she was a philosophy professor in France. From 1982 to 1983, she worked in the office of the director general of UNESCO. Shan then was employed as a journalist, working with the group "Jeune Afrique", for the magazine Géo, for Radio Nederlands and as a freelancer. She also wrote or directed a number of films.[1][2]

Selected publications[2]
  • Gens de sable, autobiographical novel (1984)
  • La coquetterie ou la passion du détail, essay (1987)
  • La vie à deux, novel (1998)
  • Sa vie africaine, novel (2007)

Selected films[2]
  • Un dimanche à Paris (1994), wrote script
  • Emmanuel Bove (1996), co-wrote script
  • Le cycle des saisons (1998), director
  • L'atelier de Susan, documentary (2005), director
  • L'œil de la forêt (2005), director

References
  1. "Catherine N'Diaye" (in French). Les éditions P.O.L.
  2. "Catherine Shan N'Diaye". University of Western Australia.
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