Fatou Fanny-Cissé

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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[edit]

Fatou Fanny-Cissé was born Fatoumata Touré-Cissé in the Ivory Coast in 1971,[1][2][3] 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,[4] before becoming a teacher and researcher in the same university.[2] She also worked for Nouvelles Éditions ivoiriennes  [fr] as a press attaché and was a columnist for the magazine Planète Jeunes.[5][6]

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.[6] She published novels, short stories, sentimental works, and even children's literature.[7] She won the 2017 African Literature Association Book of the Year Award in Creative Writing for Madame la Présidente[8] and the 2018 Prix d'excellence Charles Bauza Donwahi [fr] with Les nuages du passé et Maeva[9] She also won the Prix du meilleur écrivain 2017 of the Association des Écrivains ivoiriens (AECI).[7] Apo Philomène Séka noted that women's issues are a main theme of her works, as shown with the works' names.[7] Ngozi Obiajulum Iloh characterises Madame la présidente as ecofeminist, saying "In this fantasy-coated novel, the mystical environment leads to a mystical solution".[2]

Fanny-Cissé died on 22 December 2018 in Abidjan following an illness.[7][2] Her latest book, De mère en fille, was published posthumously in 2019.[7]

References[edit]

  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. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d e 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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