Anne-Marie Adiaffi

Last updated March 09, 2019

Anne-Marie Adiaffi (1951–1994) was an Ivorian writer who gained fame in 1983 with her novel Une vie hypothéquée (A Mortgaged Life).^[1]^[2]

Born in 1951 in Abengourou, Adiaffi was educated in Côte d'Ivoire schools before studying in Marseille and ultimately in Dakar, where she received a diploma as a bilingual secretary. After first working in a bank, she joined the publishing house Novelles Éditions Africaines in 1983. After her satiric Une vie hypothéquée, she published La ligne brisée (1989) about a man banished from his village after constant bad luck. She died in Abidjan in 1994.^[1]

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References

1 2 Gikandi, Simon (2 September 2003). Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-134-58223-5.
↑ "Anne-Marie Adiaffi" (in French). University of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 March 2015.

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[Gikandi2003-1] 1 2 Gikandi, Simon (2 September 2003). Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-134-58223-5.

[2] "Anne-Marie Adiaffi" (in French). University of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 March 2015.