Tanella Boni | |
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 Tanella Boni at book fair in Geneva, 2012 | |
| Born | Tanella Suzanne Boni 1954 (age 69–70) Tanella Suzanne Boni |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, novelist and academic |
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.