Tanella Boni

(Suzanne) Tannella Boni (born 1954) is an Ivorian poet and novelist.

Tanella Boni - book fair in Geneva 2012

Biography

Born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Tanella Boni did her advanced studies in Toulouse, France, and at the University of Paris. She became a professor of philosophy at the University of Abidjan, where she also writes poems, novels, short stories, criticism, and children's literature.

She served as President of the Writers' Association of Côte d'Ivoire from 1991 to 1997 and organized Abidjan's International Poetry Festival. In 2005, she received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize for her novel Matins de couvre-feu.

Bibliography

  • Labyrinthe (poems), Editions Akpagnon, Lomé 1984
  • Une vie de crabe (novel), Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, Dakar 1990
  • De l'autre côté du soleil (children's story), NEA-EDICEF, Paris 1991
  • La fugue d'Ozone (children's story), NEA-EDICEF, Paris 1992
  • Grains de sable (poems), Le bruit des autres, Limoges 1993
  • Les baigneurs du Lac rose (novel), Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, Abidjan, 1995, replushed by Editions du Serpent à Plumes, Paris 2002
  • Il n'y a pas de parole heureuse (poems), Le bruit des autres, Limoges 1997
  • L'atelier des génies (children's story), Acoria, Paris 2001
  • Chaque jour l'espérance (poems), L'Harmattan, Paris 2002
  • Ma peau est fenêtre d'avenir (poems), Rumeur des Ages, La Rochelle 2004
  • Gorée île baobab (poems), Limoges & Ecrits des forges, Trois-Rivières (Québec), 2004
  • Matins de couvre-feu (novel), Editions du Serpent à plumes, Paris 2005
  • Que vivent les femmes d'Afrique (essay), Editions Panama, Paris 2008
  • Les nègres n’iront jamais au paradis (novel), Editions du Serpent à Plumes, Paris 2006
  • Le Rêve du dromadaire (poems, illustrated by Muriel Diallo), Ruisseaux d’Afrique, Cotonou 2009
  • Myriam Makeba : une voix pour la liberté (biography), Éditions À dos d'âne, Paris 2009
  • Jusqu’au souvenir de ton visage (poems), Alfabarre Paris, 2010
  • L’avenir a rendez-vous avec l’aube (poems), Vents d’ailleurs, Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, 2011
  • Toute d’étincelles vêtue (poems), Vents d’ailleurs, La Roque-d’Anthéron 2014
  • Là où il fait si clair en moi (poems), Éditions Bruno Doucey, Paris 2017
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