Poets

Usman Sar (Sarus), born in 1980, is a young French poet and prose writer. He is a student of Contemporary Arts and Philosophy at the University of Paris 7. He is also a former champion of Senegal and a young African Francophone elite player in the Scrabble language game. He was born in Dakar, where he was an honorary Special Adviser to the former mayor of his hometown, before moving to Paris where he continued his education after graduating from high school in 1999. His first book of poetry is entitled The Rhythm of the Waves.