Fatou Keïta (born 1965) is an
Ivorian writer of children's books and novels.
Education and career
Born in
Soubré
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Albania
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in
Ivory Coast
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, Fatou Keïta had her primary education in
Bordeaux
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, where her father was studying surgery.
[Fatou Keita Biography]
/ref> She subsequently went to high school in Bouaké
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, where she gained her baccalaureate in 1974. In 1981, she graduated from the University of Côte d'Ivoire, and did further studies in England and the United States. In 1995 she won a Fulbright Scholarship
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and went to the University of Virginia
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at Charlottesville
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to research Black African women writers in the US as well as in England. She went on to become a lecturer in the English Department of the Université de Cocody.[
She has won awards for her writings for children." Visiting Fulbright Scholar Fatou Keita Wins Awards for Children's Stories"]
1994-12-09. Her first novel, ''Rebelle'' (1998), deals with female genital cutting
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.
Awards and honours
* 1994, ''Le petit garçon bleu'', First Prize, literary competition for Children's Books organised by the ACCT
Bibliography
* 1996: ''Le petit garçon en bleu'', ''La voleuse de sourires'', ''Sibani la petite dernière''
* 1998: ''Rebelle''
* 1999: ''Le coq qui ne voulait plus chanter''
* 2002: ''Le billet de 10 000 F''
* 2004: ''Un arbre pour Lollie''
* 2006: ''Et l'aube se leva…''
* 2009: ''Le chien qui aimait les chats!''
* 2011: ''La petite pièce de monnaie''
References
External links
Fatou Keita Biography
1965 births
Living people
Ivorian women novelists
People from Bas-Sassandra District
Ivorian novelists
Ivorian children's writers
Ivorian women children's writers
20th-century novelists
20th-century women writers
21st-century novelists
21st-century women writers
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