Khady Sylla

{{Short description|Senegalese writer}}{{Infobox person | name = Khady Sylla | birth_date = March 27 1963 | birth_place = Dakar | death_date = October 28 2013 | death_place = Dakar | alma_mater = École Normale Supérieure | occupation = Writer . filmmaker | notable_works = Une fenêtre ouverte | relatives = Mariama Sylla | image = Khady Sylla.jpg }}

'''Khady Sylla''' (Dakar, March 27, 1963 – Dakar, October 8, 2013) was a Senegalese writer of two novels, short work, and filmmaker.<ref name=w>{{cite web|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/senegal-deces-de-la-cineaste-khady-sylla-16-10-2013-1744438_3.php |title=Sénégal: décès de la cinéaste Khady Sylla - Le Point |publisher=Lepoint.fr |date=2013-06-30 |accessdate=2013-10-17}}</ref>

==Life== Born in Dakar, she studied at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' where she became interested in a literary career. She later became one of a small number of African women film makers. Her ''An Open Window'' won a first film prize at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313100725/http://www.fidmarseille.org/awardslist.htm]. She was one of several Senegalese filmmakers mentored by French ethnologist Jean Rouch.<ref name=w/> She was the older sister of the filmmaker Mariama Sylla, with whom she co-directed the film ''Une simple parole''.<ref name="cwb">{{cite web |title=Une Fenêtre ouverte & Le Monologue de la muette |url=https://www.cwb.fr/agenda/une-fenetre-ouverte-le-monologue-de-la-muette |website=Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles |accessdate=16 November 2020 |language=French |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117151025/https://www.cwb.fr/agenda/une-fenetre-ouverte-le-monologue-de-la-muette |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Works== {{Library resources box|by=yes|viaf=49287814}} ;Novels *''Le Jeu de la Mer'' [The Game of the Sea]. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992. {{ISBN|2-7384-1563-6}}

;Films *''Les Bijoux''-(1997), Short film *''Colobane Express'' (1999), docu-drama about the passengers of a Senegalese bus. *''Une fenêtre ouverte'' (2005), documentary short (52 min.) *''Une simple parole'' (2014)

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== External links == *[http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/SyllaKhadyEng.html Khady Sylla: An author from Senegal writing in French] *[http://www.coas.howard.edu/neh/FacultyandStaff.htm Howard University, a brief mention along with other artists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160929042208/http://coas.howard.edu/neh/FacultyandStaff.htm |date=2016-09-29 }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sylla, Khady}} Category:Senegalese novelists Category:Senegalese film directors Category:Senegalese women film directors Category:1963 births Category:2013 deaths Category:People from Dakar Category:French-language Senegalese writers Category:Senegalese women writers Category:Academic staff of Cheikh Anta Diop University Category:20th-century novelists Category:20th-century women writers