Williams Sassine (1944 in Kankan, Guinea – February 9, 1997 in Conakry, Guinea) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French.
[1][2][3] His father was Lebanese Christian and his mother was a Guinean of Muslim heritage.
[4] Sassine was an expatriate African writer in France after leaving Guinea when it received independence under Sékou Touré.
As a novelist he wrote of marginalized characters, but he became more optimistic on Touré's death.
Some of Sassine's works have been translated into English, Spanish and Russian.