Camara Laye [SEP] place of death
L. Miller explores the ramifications of this controversy in his book "Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity". Miller discusses the role played by Toni Morrison, whose laudatory preface is included in a new edition of the translated "Radiance of the King," published by "The New York Review of Books Classics."
Death.
Camara Laye died in 1980 in Dakar of a kidney infection.
See also.
- List of African writers by country
Writing career Authorship controversy.
Camara Laye's authorship of "Le Regard du roi" was questioned by literary scholar Adele King in her book "Rereading Camara Laye". She claimed that he had considerable help in writing "L'Enfant noir" and did not write any part of "Le Regard du roi". Scholar F. Abiola Irele, in an article called "In Search of Camara Laye", asserts that the claims are not "sufficiently grounded" to adequately justify that Laye did not author the mentioned work. Christopher