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 The Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB) (formerly known as University of Cocody-Abidjan, fr.: Université de Cocody or Université de Cocody-Abidjan) is an institution of higher education located in the Cocody section of Abidjan and t ...

, 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 Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

in 1971, She was educated at

, 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 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 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 Ecofeminism is a branch of feminism and political ecology. Ecofeminist thinkers draw on the concept of gender to analyse the relationships between humans and the natural world. The term was coined by the French writer Françoise d'Eaubonne in h ...

, saying "In this fantasy-coated novel, the mystical environment leads to a mystical solution". Fanny-Cissé died on 22 December 2018 in

Abidjan Abidjan ( , ; N'Ko script, N’ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the economic capital of the Ivory Coast. As of the Demographics of Ivory Coast, 2021 census, Abidjan's population was 6.3 million, which is 21.5 percent of overall population of the country, ...

following an illness. Her latest book, ''De mère en fille'', was published posthumously in 2019.

References

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