Amadou Lamine Sall, born on March 26, 1951, in Kaolack, Senegal, is one of the major poets of contemporary French-speaking Africa.

Amadou Lamine Sall born in 1951 in Kaolack, is the Founder of the African House of International Poetry,[2] and he presides over the destinies of the International Biennale of Poetry in Dakar, Senegal.

Winner in 1991 of the Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises, awarded by the French Academy[3] He is the author of numerous anthologies of poetry that have been translated into several languages.

Amadou Lamine Sall always writes his poems in free verse, with very little punctuation.

Amadou Lamine Sall's poetry is on the curriculum of many universities and his writing is also the subject of several doctoral theses.