Tanella bonuses
Suzanne Tannella Boni (born 1954 in Abidjan , Ivory Coast ) is an Ivorian poet and writer .
Life
Tanella Boni studied in Toulouse and at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and graduated with a doctorate in philosophy . She then went back to Abidjan and taught at the Université de Cocody . She had to leave the country in 2009 and has lived in Paris ever since . As an author, she writes poetry , short stories , novels and children's books and works as a literary critic .
From 1991 to 1997 she was chairman of the Ivory Coast Writers' Union and until 2002 organized the Festival international de poésie d'Abidjan . In 2005 she received the award named after Ahmadou Kourouma for her novel Matins de couvre-feu .
2019 it was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.
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- Labyrinths (poetry), Editions Akpagnon, Lomé 1984
- Une vie de crabe (novel), Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, Dakar 1990
- De l'autre côté du soleil (children's book), NEA-EDICEF, Paris 1991
- La fugue d'ozone (children's book), NEA-EDICEF, Paris 1992
- Grains de sable (poetry), Le bruit des autres, Limoges 1993
- Les baigneurs du lac rose (novel), Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, Abidjan 1995, reprinted by Editions du Serpent à Plumes, Paris 2002
- Il n'y a pas de parole heureuse (poetry), Le bruit des autres, Limoges 1997
- L'Atelier des génies (children's book), Acoria, Paris 2001
- Chaque jour l'espérance (poetry), L'Harmattan, Paris 2002
- Ma peau est fenêtre d'avenir (poetry), Rumeur des Ages, La Rochelle, 2004
- Gorée île baobab (poetry), Le bruit des autres, Limoges and Écrits 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 (poetry, 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 (poetry), Alfabarre Paris, 2010
- L'avenir a rendez-vous avec l'aube (poetry), Vents d'ailleurs, La Roque-d'Anthéron, 2011
- Toute d'étincelles vêtue (poetry), Vents d'ailleurs, La Roque-d'Anthéro 2014
- Là où il fait si clair en moi (poetry), Éditions Bruno Doucey, Paris 2017
Web links
- Tanella Boni's official website
- Bio bibliography on "Lire les femmes et les littératures africaines" (French)
- Example of Boni's poetry in German translation (by Lotta Suter and her team, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ^ Boni Tanella. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonuses, Tanella |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonuses, Suzanne Tannella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ivorian poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abidjan , Ivory Coast |