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Ivorian writer (1971–2018)

Fatou Fanny-Cissé
Fanny-Cissé in 2014
Born1971
Died22 December 2018(2018-12-22) (aged 46–47)
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Alma materUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Occupations
  • Writer
  • journalist
  • educator
EmployerUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Fatou Fanny-Cissé (born Fatoumata Touré-Cissé; 1971 – 22 December 2018) was an Ivorian writer, journalist, and educator. A teacher at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, she wrote several books such as Une femme, deux maris, Maeva and Madame la présidente.

Biography

Fatou Fanny-Cissé was born Fatoumata Touré-Cissé in the Ivory Coast in 1971, She was educated at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, where she obtained a master's degree in communication sciences and then a doctorate in modern letters, before becoming a teacher and researcher in the same university. She also worked for Nouvelles Éditions ivoiriennes  [fr] as a press attaché and was a columnist for the magazine Planète Jeunes.

She started writing in 2000, and she wrote more than a dozen books during her career, including Une femme, deux maris, Maeva and Madame la présidente. She published novels, short stories, sentimental works, and even children's literature. She won the 2017 African Literature Association Book of the Year Award in Creative Writing for Madame la Présidente and the 2018 Prix d'excellence Charles Bauza Donwahi [fr] with Les nuages du passé et Maeva She also won the Prix du meilleur écrivain 2017 of the Association des Écrivains ivoiriens (AECI). Apo Philomène Séka noted that women's issues are a main theme of her works, as shown with the works' names. Ngozi Obiajulum Iloh characterises Madame la présidente as ecofeminist, saying "In this fantasy-coated novel, the mystical environment leads to a mystical solution".

Fanny-Cissé died on 22 December 2018 in Abidjan following an illness. Her latest book, De mère en fille, was published posthumously in 2019.

References

  1. Iloh, Ngozi Obiajulum (1 June 2021). "Une Étude critique de Madame la présidente de Fatou Fanny-Cissé". Neohelicon (in French). 48 (1): 403–414. doi:10.1007/s11059-020-00573-8. ISSN 1588-2810. Retrieved 24 March 2024 – via SpringerLink.
  2. ^ Iloh, Ngozi Obiajulum; Benin, University of; Nigéria (2019). "Éco-féminisme dans Madame la présidente de Fatou Fanny-Cissé". AntipodeS - Études de langue française en terres non francophones (in French). 2 (1). ISSN 2596-1837. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  3. Touré-Cissé, Fatoumata (2016). "Témoigner sur le drame rwandais à l'aide de la fiction romanesque". Dalhousie French Studies (in French) (109). ISSN 2562-8704. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  4. Salif D. Cheickna. "Décès : L'écrivaine Fatou Fanny-Cissé a déposé la plume". www.fratmat.info. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  5. "Fatou Fanny Cissé". aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  6. ^ Coulibaly, Irène (26 December 2018). "La littérature ivoirienne en deuil : l'écrivaine Fatou Fanny Cissé range à jamais sa plume". 100pour100culture.com. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  7. ^ Séka, Apo Philomène (31 March 2020). "Fatou Fanny-Cissé, la féministe engagée au miroir de ses œuvres (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)". Fabula (in French). Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  8. "Book of the Year Award – Creative Writing -". African Literature Association. 27 July 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  9. "3e Prix Charles Bauza Donwahi: Fatou Fanny-Cissé plane avec Les nuages du passé et Maeva". fratmat.info (in French). Retrieved 16 July 2022.
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