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Williams Sassine(1944-1996) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French. His father was Lebanese Christian and his mother was a Guinean of Muslim.
Sassine was an expatriate African writers in France after leaving Guinea when it received independence underSékou Touré. As a novelist he wrote of marginalized characters, but became more optimistic on Toure's death. His novel Le jeune homme de sable has been regarded as among the best twentieth century African novels[1]. Few of his works have been translated into English, but Wirriyamu had an English translation in 1980. As an editor he remained critical of Toure as chief editor for the satirical Le Lynx paper.
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