# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boubacar-boris-diop
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:47:55.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boubacar-boris-diop"
name: "Boubacar Boris Diop"
slug: "boubacar-boris-diop"
description: "Boubacar Boris Diop is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements, is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays. Doomi Golo (2003) is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof; it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar."
tagline: "Sengalese writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boobocar_Boris_Diop.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.49057066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2214338"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump