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Modou Lamin Sowe

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Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe is an award winning Gambian-American writer, poet, blogger, novelist, and playwright. His books have been translated into 5 different languages. Modou loves traveling and has been to 15 different countries around the world. Author of Don't Judge The Book By The Cover (2006), The Throne of The Ghost (2016), The Memories of Reflection (2014), TWAWEZA (2019), and AfriKa Not AfriCa (2020).

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Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe was born on 7 January 1990 in Bakau Newtown, The Gambia, West Africa. Sowe is an award-winning Gambian novelist, playwright, poet, and scholar, regarded as the youngest dominant figure in modern Gambian and African literature.

His first play and magnum opus, The Throne of The Ghost published in 2016 in the USA by the African Books Collective, occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, taught, and read African drama across the world.

ML Sowe is the founder of the Young Writers’ Association of The Gambia (YWAG), former Secretary-General of the Writers’ Association of The Gambia (WAG), and the current Executive Director of the World Writers’ Association (WoWA).

Author of Don’t Judge The Book By The Cover, AfriKa Not AfriCa, The Throne of The Ghost, and The Memories of Reflection.

Modou started writing at the age of 14, and won the prize for Best Young Gambian Writer of The Year 2019, and is the WAG Laureate for Children’s Literature 2019. Modou Lamin Sowe was featured in TWAWEZA, an anthology of 24 African Non-Fiction Stories published by the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT) during the PenPen Africa Writers Residency held in Abuja, Nigeria.

He recently won an award for excellence for his contributions to African literature presented to him by the International Association of African Authors and Scholars (IAAAS), Atlanta, USA.

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