Adiza Sanoussi Explained

Adiza Sanoussi
Occupation:	Novelist
Language:	French
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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) .^{[4] [5]}
• 2005: Devoir de cuissage. Ouagadougou: Editions JEL (142 pages) .^[6]
• 2010: Et Yallah s’exila. Ouagadougou: Editions JEL (161 pages) .^[7]
• 2012: Sopam, le duc de Liptougou. Paris: Harmattan. (184 pages) .^[8]
• 2013: Ciel dégagé sur Ouaga. Ouagadougou: Harmattan Burkina (146 pages) .^[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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Artistes BF . 2017-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170327080135/http://www.artistesbf.org/spip.php?article1579 . 2017-03-27 . dead .
2. Web site: Adiza Sanoussi .
3. Web site: Hadiza Sanoussi : De la lecture à la plume. 24 August 2015. 26 March 2017. 6 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190706005128/http://ecodufaso.com/adiza-sanoussi-de-la-lecture-a-la-plume/. dead.
4. Web site: Les deux maris - Adiza Sanoussi. Babelio.
5. Web site: Nouvelles plumes burkinabè: Les deux maris, Hadiza Sanoussi, ed Moreux, Coll. Archipels littéraires, 2001, 283p. 8 December 2009.
6. Web site: Afrilivres | Devoir de cuissage | Catalogue.
7. Book: Et Yallah s'exila: Roman. 25197337M. 9782915889062. 2009. Editions Jel.
8. Web site: SOPAM, LE DUC DE LIPTOUGOU, Hadiza Sanoussi - livre, ebook, epub.
9. Web site: Archived copy . 2017-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170822041205/http://harmattanburkina.com/wa_files/Catalogue_20parutions_20Harmattan_20Burkina_202009_2013.pdf . 2017-08-22 . dead .