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Tanella BONI An author from the Ivory Coast writing in French [Return to French — Page originale en français] |
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Tanella Suzanne Boni was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She attended primary and middle school in the northern part of the Ivory Coast, high school in Abidjan and university in Toulouse and then Paris, where she obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy. She has been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abidjan (Cocody). She was the Chair of the Association of Côte d'Ivoire's writers from 1991 to 1997 and is often invited to address international conferences on poetry, the arts and literature. Together with her family, Tanella Boni lived for more than twenty years in Abidjan but had to leave this city because of the civil war that has divided her country. She now (2009) lives in Paris.
Publications
Novels
Une Vie de crabe [A Crab's Life]. Dakar: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 1990. (107p.). ISBN: 2-7236-0437-3. Novel.
Les Baigneurs du Lac Rose [The Bathers of the Pink Lake]. Abidjan: Les Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1995. Novel.
Matins de couvre-feu Le Serpent à plumes, 2005. (320p.). ISBN: 2 268 05302 4. Novel.
Les nègres n'iront jamais au paradis. Paris: Editions du Rocher, Le Serpent à plumes, 2006. (208p.). ISBN: 2 268 05733 X. Novel.
Poetry
Labyrinthe [Labyrinth]. Dakar: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 1984. Poetry.
Grains de sable [Grains of sand]. Limoges: Editions Le bruit des autres, 1993. Poetry.
Il n'y a pas de parole heureuse [There are no happy words]. Limoges: Editions le bruit des autres, 1997. Poetry.
Chaque jour l'espérance [Hope, day after day]. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002 (162p.). Poetry.
Ma peau est fenêtre d'avenir [My skin is a window on tomorrow]. La Rochelle [7, rue Dupaty] : Rumeur des Ages, 2004. (56p.). Poetry.
Gorée île baobab [Goree, the baobab island]. Limoges (France) / Trois-Rivières (Québec): Le bruit des autres / Écrits des forges, 2004. (110p.). ISBN 2-914461-40-2 / ISBN 2-89046-815-1. Poetry.
Jusqu'au souvenir de ton visage. Paris: alfAbarre, 2010. (96p.). ISBN: 978-2-35759-014-4. Poetry.
Essay
Que vivent les femmes d'Afrique. Paris: Editions Panama, 2008. (220p.). ISBN : 978-2-7557-0142-5. Essay.
Short stories
"Peau de sel" [Skin of salt], in Les Chaînes de l'esclavage [The chains of slavery]. Paris: Florent-Massot, 1998, pp.53-69. ISBN 2-908382-95-4.
"Ici, il n'y a pas le feu" [Here, there is no burning hurry], in Dernières nouvelles de la [The latest news from Françafrique]. La Roque d'Anthéron: Vents d'ailleurs, 2003, pp.109-126.
Children's literature
De l'autre côté du soleil [From the other side of the Sun]. Paris: EDICEF, 1991. (144p.).
La Fugue d'Ozone [The flight of Ozone]. Dakar: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 1992.
L'Atelier des génies [The workshop of the genies]. Paris: Editions Acoria, 2002. (96p.)
Reviews
Jean-Marie Volet. Matins de couvre-feu. January 2009.
Editor ([email protected])
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Created: 24 December 1995
Modified: 19 August 2011
Archived: 28 November 2013
https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/BoniTanellaEng.html