fiction. Allah Is Not Obliged received its first English translation in 2006. At the time of his death, in Lyon, he was working on a sequel to Allah n'est pas obligé, entitled Quand on refuse on dit non (translated roughly as "When One Disagrees, One Says No"), in which the protagonist of the first novel, a child soldier, is demobilized and returns to his home in Côte d'Ivoire, where a new regional conflict has arisen. Bibliography Les Soleils des indépendances, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1968 The Suns of Independence, Translator Adrian Adams, Holmes & Meier, 1981, Le diseur de vérité — drama, 1972; Acoria, 1998, Monnè, Éditions du Seuil, 1990, Monnew: a novel, Translator Nidra Poller, Mercury House, 1993, En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, Éditions du Seuil, 1998, ; Illustrators Claude Millet, Denise Millet; Editions Gallimard, 2011, Allah n'est pas obligé, Seuil, 2000, ; Random House Digital, Inc., 2007, Quand on refuse on dit non, Editor Gilles Carpentier, Éditions du Seuil, 2005, Awards and honors Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire (1969), for Les Soleils des indépendances Prix Maillé-Latour-Landry (1970), for Les Soleils des indépendances Prix Tropiques (1998), for En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages Grand prix Poncetton (1998), for En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages Prix du Livre Inter (1999), for En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages Grand prix Jean-Giono (2000), for Allah n'est pas obligé Prix Renaudot (2000), for Allah n'est pas obligé Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (2000), for Allah n'est pas obligé References External links The official Allah is Not Obliged website Christopher Cox, "Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah is not Obliged", Words without Borders, 2007. "Allah n'est pas obligé D'Ahmadou Kourouma", Cinquième zone n° 102, 2 December 2000 Ahmadou Kourouma at The Complete Review Ahmadou Kourouma at webAfriqa 1927 births 2003 deaths Ivorian novelists People of French West Africa Ivorian expatriates in Algeria Ivorian exiles Ivorian expatriates in Mali Prix Renaudot winners Prix du Livre Inter winners Grand prix Jean Giono recipients Prix Goncourt des lycéens winners Ivorian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century novelists 20th-century dramatists and playwrights People from Savanes District Male novelists Male dramatists and playwrights Ivorian male writers Mandinka 20th-century male writers 21st-century novelists 21st-century male writers