Adiza Sanoussi is the nom de plume of Alizata Sana, a contemporary Burkinabé novelist.

Biography

Born on the border between Burkina Faso and Niger, she has a CAPES diploma, a Maîtrise in Physical Geography, and a Certificate of Higher Studies in Cooperative Economics. She began writing in 2001.[1] From 2004, she managed the archives of the Burkinabé Ministère des Enseignements Secondaires, Supérieurs et de la recherche Scientifique,[2] then in 2008 became head of the computer archives department in the same ministry.[3] She is currently (2016) a lecturer at the Institut Panafricain d’Etudes de Recherche sur les Médias, l’Information et la Communication (IPERMIC) of the University of Ouagadougou.[1] She has published six books in French. They treat social problems facing African young people such as forced marriage, prostitution and rural exodus.

Selected works

  • 2001: Les deux maris. Paris: Editions Moreux (283 pages) ISBN 2-85112-029-8.[4][5]
  • 2005: Devoir de cuissage. Ouagadougou: Editions JEL (142 pages) ISBN 2-915889-03-1.[6]
  • 2010: Et Yallah s’exila. Ouagadougou: Editions JEL (161 pages) ISBN 978-2-915-88906-2.[7]
  • 2012: Sopam, le duc de Liptougou. Paris: Harmattan. (184 pages) ISBN 978-2-336-00179-1.[8]
  • 2013: Ciel dégagé sur Ouaga. Ouagadougou: Harmattan Burkina (146 pages) ISBN 978-2-677-92103-1.[9]
  • L'Empire Lidea[1]

Awards

In 2008, she was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre du mérite des arts, de la culture et de la communication, at the Ouagadougou International Book Fair.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Artistes BF". Archived from the original on 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  2. ↑ "Adiza Sanoussi".
  3. 1 2 "Hadiza Sanoussi : De la lecture à la plume". 24 August 2015. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Les deux maris - Adiza Sanoussi". Babelio.
  5. ↑ "Nouvelles plumes burkinabè: Les deux maris, Hadiza Sanoussi, ed Moreux, Coll. Archipels littéraires, 2001, 283p". 8 December 2009.
  6. ↑ "Afrilivres | Devoir de cuissage | Catalogue".
  7. ↑ Et Yallah s'exila: Roman. Editions Jel. 2009. ISBN 9782915889062. OL 25197337M.
  8. ↑ "SOPAM, LE DUC DE LIPTOUGOU, Hadiza Sanoussi - livre, ebook, epub".
  9. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2017-03-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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