Rosemonde AHOU DE SAINTANGE An author from Côte d'Ivoire and France writing in French [Return to French — Page originale en français]

Valérie Roullard (pen name Rosemonde Ahou de Saintange) was born in France in 1934 and arrived in Côte d'Ivoire in 1961. She spent some 30 years in this country and ran an industrial bakery in the city of Aboisso with her husband. Back in France after they retired from business, Valérie Roullard continued to write about Africa. With regard to her pseudonym, she said in the early 1990s : "Rosemonde is the name which I used to sign my drawings when I was a child; Ahou means Thursday in the language spoken in the region of Côte d'Ivoire where I lived and I was born on a Thursday; de Saintange is a name I fancy and, like my married name, it starts with the letter S"

Publications

Sang et larmes d'Afrique. [Blood and tears]. Paris: La Pensée Universelle, 1989. (274p.). ISBN 2 214 07841 X. Novel.

Les Enfants perdus. Lost children]. Paris: La Pensée Universelle, 1989. (122p.). ISBN 2 214 08062 7. Short stories.

L'Inspecteur Koffikan. [Inspector Koffikan]. Paris: La Pensée Universelle, 1990. (150p.). ISBN 2 214 08498 1. Two (detective) short stories.

Le Makoré. L'Epine-aux-Bois: ABACA, 1997. (192p.). ISBN 2 84227 014 2. Novel.

Les Enfants du soleil. [children of the sun]. L'Epine-aux-Bois: ABACA, 1998. (128p.). ISBN 2 84227 061 4. Short stories.

Le Thé des hommes. Paris: Editions des Ecrivains, 2002. (244p.). ISBN 2 7480 0837 5. Novel.

Les Enfants des Alizés. [The children of the north-east winds]. Paris: Editions des Ecrivains, 2003. (244p.). ISBN 2 7480 1491 X. Short stories.

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The University of Western Australia/French
Created: 29 June 2006
Archived: 13 October 2011
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