Boubacar Boris Diop (born 26 October 1946) is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter.

He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays.

It was translated to English by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop, and published as Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by the Michigan State University Press in the series African Humanities and the Arts.

[3] His novel Murambi, The Book of Bones won him the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

[4] Diop also writes for the cinema and theatre and contributes to numerous publications, including Internazionale [it] and Chimurenga.