# Khady Sylla

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{{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](/source/Dakar), March 27, 1963 – Dakar, October 8, 2013) was a [Senegal](/source/Senegal)ese 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Jean_Rouch).<ref name=w/> She was the older sister of the filmmaker [Mariama Sylla](/source/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==
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;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](/source/Une_fen%C3%AAtre_ouverte)'' (2005), documentary short (52 min.)
*''Une simple parole'' (2014)

==References==
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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 }}

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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

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