List of Senegalese writers
This is a list of prominent Senegalese authors
A - G
- Agbo, Berte-Evelyne, poet, also connected with Benin
- Bâ, Mariama, French-language novelist
- Barry, Kesso, autobiographer born in Guinea
- Barry, Mariama, French-language autobiographical novelist
- Benga, Sokhna, novelist and poet
- Bocoum, Jacqueline Fatima, former journalist turned author and programme director
- Bugul, Ken, autobiographical writer and novelist
- Cisse, Mamadou
- Diakhate, Lamine, poet and novelist
- Diallo, Nafissatou Niang, autobiographer, novelist and children's writer
- Dieng, Mame Younousse, novelist in French and Wolof
- Aminata Sophie Dièye, journalist, novelist and playwright
- Babacar Sedikh Diouf, historian, author and intellectual
- Diouf, Nafissatou Dia, novelist and children's writer,
- Diouf, Sylviane, historian and lecturer
- Diome, Fatou, novelist
- Diop, Alioune, essayist and intellectual
- Diop, Birago, French-language folklorist, poet and autobiographer
- Diop, Boubacar Boris, novelist
- Diop, Cheikh Anta, Afrocentric historian and anthropologist
- Diop, David, poet
- Dogbeh, Richard, also connected with Benin, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire
- Fall, Khadi, poet
- Fall, Kiné Kirama, poet
- Fall, Malick, French-language novelist and poet
- Faye, Louis Diène, anthropologist and scholar of Serer religion, history and culture
- Gnimagnon, Christine Adjahi, also connected with Benin
H - O
- Hane, Khadidjatou (Khady)
- Joof, Tamsier
- Ka, Aminata Maïga, French-language novelist
- Kane, Cheikh Hamidou, French-language novelist
- Kane, Ndèye Fatou, Senegalese novelist and feminist, granddaughter of Cheikh Hamidou Kane
- Mbaye, Annette (d'Erneville)
- Amina Sow Mbaye French-language poet and novelist
- Mordasini, Diana
- Ndao, Cheikh Aliou, novelist, playwright and poet
- Adja Ndèye Boury Ndiaye, novelist
- Ndiaye, Marie, born in France, novelist
- Ndoye, Mariama, novelist, short story writer and children's writer
- Niane, Djibril Tamsir, novelist and historian
- Niang, Mame Bassine, writer and lawyer
- Niang, Fatou Siga
P - Z
- Sadji, Abdoulaye, novelist and children's writer
- Sall, Amadou Lamine, poet
- Sall, Ibrahima, novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer
- Sarr, Alioune, historian and politician, scholar of Serer history
- Seek, Alioune Badara, novelist
- Sembène, Ousmane, writer and filmmaker
- Sène, Fama Diagne, novelist and playwright
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, poet and politician
- Catherine Shan, French language novelist and film director
- Ousmane Socé, French-language novelist
- Sow, Fatou Ndiaye
- Sow Fall, Aminata, novelist
- Sylla, Khady
- Thiaw, Issa Laye, historian, theologian and scholar of Serer religion and history
- Rama Thiaw, filmmaker, screenwriter
- Traoré, Abibatou
- Vieyra, Myriam Warner, novelist born in Guadeloupe