Franco Catanzariti

Franco Catanzariti is a Canadian playwright, whose play Sahel was staged by the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario and published by Prise de parole in 2003. It was a shortlisted finalist for the Trillium Book Award and the Governor General's Award for French-language drama, and won the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen from the Salon du livre de Toronto, in 2004.

The play was inspired by a trip to Ghana which Catanzariti undertook in the 1970s, during which he spent time among the nomadic Wodaabe people, As of 2017, he was listed as a director of the Burundi Education Fund, a charitable organization based in London, Ontario.