Tanella Suzanne Boni (born 1954) is an Ivorian poet and novelist. Also an academic, she is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abidjan. Apart from her teaching and research activities, she was the President of the association of writers of the Côte d'Ivoire from 1991 to 1997, and later the organizer of the International Poetry Festival in Abidjan from 1998 to 2002. Biography Tanella Boni was born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, where she was educated to high-school level, before going on to further university studies in Toulouse, France, and at the University of Paris, obtaining a PhD. She subsequently became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cocody-Abidjan (now the University of Félix Houphouët-Boigny), as well as writing poetry, 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 from 1998 to 2002. During the political strife in Côte d'Ivoire (from 2002 until 2011) she self-exiled to France. In 2005, she received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize for her novel Matins de couvre-feu (Mornings after curfew). In 2009, she won the Antonio Viccaro International Poetry Prize. Since 2013, Boni divides her time between Abidjan and Paris. She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Bibliography Labyrinthe (poems), Editions Akpagnon, Lomé 1984 Une vie de crabe (novel), Dakar: Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Sénégal, 1990 De l'autre côté du soleil (children's story), Paris: NEA-EDICEF, 1991 La fugue d'Ozone (children's story), Paris: NEA-EDICEF, 1992 Grains de sable (poems), Limoges: Le bruit des autres, 1993 Les baigneurs du Lac rose (novel), Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1995; Paris: Editions du Serpent à Plumes, 2002 Il n'y a pas de parole heureuse (poems), Limoges: Le bruit des autres, 1997 L'atelier des génies (children's story), Paris: Acoria, 2001 Chaque jour l'espérance (poems), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002 Ma peau est fenêtre d'avenir (poems), La Rochelle: Rumeur des Ages, 2004 Gorée île baobab (poems), Limoges & Ecrits des forges, Trois-Rivières (Québec), 2004 Matins de couvre-feu (novel), Paris: Editions du Serpent à plumes, 2005 Que vivent les femmes d'Afrique (essay), Paris: Editions Panama, 2008, Les nègres n’iront jamais au paradis (novel), Paris: Editions du Serpent à Plumes, 2006 Le Rêve du dromadaire (poems, illustrated by Muriel Diallo), Cotonou: Ruisseaux d’Afrique, 2009 Myriam Makeba : une voix pour la liberté (biography), Paris: Éditions À dos d'âne,