Fatou Fanny-Cissé
{{Short description|Ivorian writer (1971–2018)}}
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| caption = Fanny-Cissé in 2014
| birth_date = 1971
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|12|22|1971|df=y}}
| death_place = Abidjan, Ivory Coast
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Writer
- journalist
- educator
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| employer = Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
| alma_mater = Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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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, 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 in 1971,{{Cite journal |last=Iloh |first=Ngozi Obiajulum |date=2021-06-01 |title=Une Étude critique de Madame la présidente de Fatou Fanny-Cissé |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00573-8 |journal=Neohelicon |language=fr |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=403–414 |doi=10.1007/s11059-020-00573-8 |issn=1588-2810 |access-date=2024-03-24 |via=SpringerLink|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last=Iloh |first=Ngozi Obiajulum |last2=Benin |first2=University of |last3=Nigéria |date=2019 |title=Éco-féminisme dans Madame la présidente de Fatou Fanny-Cissé |url=https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/Antipodes/article/view/37497 |journal=AntipodeS - Études de langue française en terres non francophones |language=fr |volume=2 |issue=1 |issn=2596-1837 |access-date=2024-03-24}}{{Cite journal |last=Touré-Cissé |first=Fatoumata |date=2016 |title=Témoigner sur le drame rwandais à l‘aide de la fiction romanesque |url=https://ojs.library.dal.ca/dfs/article/view/8136 |journal=Dalhousie French Studies |language=fr |issue=109 |issn=2562-8704 |access-date=29 September 2022}} She was educated at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, where she obtained a master's degree in communication sciences and then a doctorate in modern letters,{{Cite news |last=Salif D. Cheickna |title=Décès : L'écrivaine Fatou Fanny-Cissé a déposé la plume |url=https://www.fratmat.info/article/86880/63/deces-l-ecrivaine-fatou-fanny-cisse-a-depose-la-plume |access-date=2022-03-21 |work=www.fratmat.info}} before becoming a teacher and researcher in the same university. She also worked for {{ill|Nouvelles Éditions ivoiriennes|fr|italics=y}} as a press attaché and was a columnist for the magazine Planète Jeunes.{{Cite web |title=Fatou Fanny Cissé |url=https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/CisseFatouFannyEng.html |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au}}{{cite web |title=La littérature ivoirienne en deuil : l’écrivaine Fatou Fanny Cissé range à jamais sa plume |url=http://www.100pour100culture.com/litterature/litterature-ivoirienne-deuil-lecrivaine-fatou-fanny-cisse-range-a-jamais-plume/ |first=Irène |last=Coulibaly |date=26 December 2018 |website=100pour100culture.com |access-date=29 September 2022}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Séka |first=Apo Philomène |date=2020-03-31 |title=Fatou Fanny-Cissé, la féministe engagée au miroir de ses œuvres (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) |url=https://www.fabula.org/actualites/93333/colloque-international.html |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Fabula |language=fr-FR}} She won the 2017 African Literature Association Book of the Year Award in Creative Writing for Madame la Présidente{{Cite web |date=2014-07-27 |title=Book of the Year Award – Creative Writing - |url=https://africanlit.org/creative-writing-book-of-the-year-award/ |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=African Literature Association |language=en-US}} and the 2018 Prix d'excellence {{ill|Charles Bauza Donwahi|fr}} with Les nuages du passé et Maeva{{cite web |language=fr |title=3e Prix Charles Bauza Donwahi: Fatou Fanny-Cissé plane avec ‘’Les nuages du passé’’ et ‘’Maeva’’ |url=https://www.fratmat.info/article/82849/Culture/3e-prix-charles-bauza-donwahi-fatou-fanny-cisse-plane-avec-les-nuages-du-passe-et-maeva |website=fratmat.info |access-date=16 July 2022}} 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, saying "In this fantasy-coated novel, the mystical environment leads to a mystical solution".
Fanny-Cissé died on 22 December 2018 in Abidjan following an illness. Her latest book, De mère en fille, was published posthumously in 2019.
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Category:Ivorian writers in French
Category:Ivorian women writers
Category:Ivorian children's writers
Category:Ivorian women novelists
Category:Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny alumni
Category:Academic staff of Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny