Phoenix’ list of authors is very eclectic. The following authors published works with Phoenix: M. Landing Savane, former Minister of State of Senegal; Ndack Kane, whose first novel is enjoying a long lasting success in Canada; Nicole Barriere who won the 2002 Goncourt Prize and Abdoulaye Yansane whose book has been included in the University of Tennessee's Graduate French curriculum.
Our upcoming writers include: Cornel West: philosopher, author, actor, civil rights activist and professor at Princeton University; Richard Joffo, a famous French media personality; Souleymane Bachir Diagne, world famous scholar and Director of Graduate Studies at Columbia University; Amadou Mahtar Mbow, former General Director of the UNESCO; Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America and Advisor at the World Organization for Resource Development and Education and Her Excellency Ambassador Monique Ilboudo who represents the government of Burkina Faso in Norway.
Our Authors
FEATURED AUTHORS
Diane Kennedy-Rauscher (link)
Diane is from a very famous British-American family. Phoenix published her French memoirs "Les Carnets d'une bourgeoise dechue" (Diary of a Fallen Bourgeois) in 2011.
Four years prior to studying at Hamilton College, Barkham lived in Dakar, Senegal. A native French speaker with a passion for writing and foreign languages, her dream was to write and publish a book in English before the age of thirty. She thus applied to Hamilton College after hearing from her counselor that it was a “good school for aspiring writers.”
Almost four years later, her dream came true with the publication of The Mirth of College, a novel she initially wrote in the hopes of entertaining her friends and family. Barkham still attends Hamilton College where she spends most of her time working on her world politics thesis. She is also fluent in Wolof and proficient in conversational Arabic and Spanish. Her present dream is to pursue a career in international diplomacy.
Amadou Mahtar M'bow
M'bow was UNESCO's Director General for 13 years (1974-1987) and the first black African to head a United Nations support organisation. He served as Minister of Education and Minister of Culture of Senegal.
Landing Savane
Savane is Senegal's former Minister of State and the Secretary General of one of its leading political party. He ran for President in 1988, 1993 and 2007. He is a personal friend of the President of Congo, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Gabon and Togo. He was Minister of Mines, Crafts and Industry (2000-2002) and Minister of State under the President (2005-2009). Phoenix will publish his new 500 page book in May 2010.
Sylviane Diouf
Diouf is is a historian and writer of Franco-Senegalese origin. She is the author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (New York University Press, 1998) received awards and has raised notice for its detailed, well-written, and well-researched study of Muslims in the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. She also wrote Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Oxford University Press, 2007, which received the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association and the James Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association. It was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Diouf has appeared on PBS in the documentaries This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys and Prince Among Slaves and in History Detectives. She has also appeared on ABC.
Richard Joffo
Joffo is a French TV host, a political expert and the President of France's Audiovisual Academy which trains some of the most talented French TV anchors and radio hosts. He served as political advisor to a various French and African political leaders. He is the producer of such famous French shows as OCINE (with Radio France), O et Fort (broadcasted on the France O network) and Rendez-Vous a Paris (broadcasted internationally on the Telesud TV network. Phoenix will publish his book L'Affaire Flamenco ("The Flamenco Case") in May 2010.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Bachir is renowned philosopher and scholar. His work is focused on the history of logic and mathematics, epistemology, the tradition of philosophy in the Islamic world, identity formation, and African literatures and philosophies. He is a member of the scientific committees of Diogenes (published by UNESCO’s International Counsel of Philosophy and Social Sciences), and Malagasy Committee for Higher Education (CAMES), as well as UNESCO’s Council on the Future. He has been named by Le Nouvel observateur one of the 50 thinkers of our time. In October 2007 he was invited to participate in a white paper commission on the defense and national security in the French Senate in Paris. Bachir has published two books on George Boole and a book on the Indian poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal called Islam and Open Society. He is currently Professor of French at Columbia University in New York and Director of Graduate Studies. Phoenix will publish his book Comment Philosopher en Islam in May 2010 and will organize an international tour and book signing event that will take place in Montreal, New-York, Washington D.C. and Dakar.
Nicole Barriere
Nicole is a world famous French poet and the Secretary General of the French chapter of the International PEN, the world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization. She has a strong interest in persian and arabic poetry. She is a Director of Collection at L'Harmattan, France's biggest publishing company (+1,500 new books per year). Nicole recently joined Phoenix as Director of the Collection Terres Natales ("Native Earth"). Nicole won the 2002 Prix Goncourt (France's highest book award) for one of her work of poetry written in Persian and in French. In January 2010, Phoenix published Afrique, her new book of poetry.
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