Catherine Shan

Catherine Shan (born 1952) is a writer from Senegal.

The daughter of a French mother and a Senegalese father, she was born Catherine N'Diaye and grew up in Africa. From 1975 to 1981, she was a philosophy professor in France. From 1982 to 1983, she worked in the office of the director general of UNESCO. Shan then was employed as a journalist, working with the group "Jeune Afrique", for the magazine Géo, for Radio Nederlands and as a freelancer. She also wrote or directed a number of films.