Yambo Ouologuem, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yambo Ouologuem

Malian writer

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1940

Place of Birth: Bandiagara, Mopti Region, Mali

Date of Death: 14-Oct-2017

Profession: writer, teacher, novelist

Nationality: Mali

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 – October 14, 2017) was a Malian writer.
His first novel, Le devoir de violence (English: Bound to Violence, 1968), won the Prix Renaudot.
He later published Lettre à la France nègre (1969), and Les mille et une bibles du sexe (1969) under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph.
Le devoir de violence was initially well-received, but critics later charged that Ouologuem had plagiarized passages from Graham Greene and other established authors.
Ouologuem turned away from the Western press as a result of the matter, and remained reclusive for the rest of his life.