# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yambo-ouologuem
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:48:38.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yambo-ouologuem"
name: "Yambo Ouologuem"
slug: "yambo-ouologuem"
description: "Yambo Ouologuem was a Malian writer. His first novel, Le devoir de violence, 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 such as André Schwartz-Bart. Ouologuem turned away from the Western press as a result of the matter, and remained reclusive for the rest of his life."
tagline: "Malian writer (1940–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dessin_Yambo_Ouologuem.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-08-22"
deathDate: "2017-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.17034133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump