Fatou Bolli

Fatou Bolli is an Ivorian novelist. She was the second published Ivorian woman writer with her 1976 novel Djigbô.

Life and career

Bolli was born in 1952 in Abidjan, and worked for a period at the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique in Paris.
Her 1976 novel Djigbô dealt with the subject of witchcraft, a subject that has been rarely addressed in Ivorian literature. The book was only the second Ivorian book published by a woman writer, and sold well in bookstores on its release.
She has been described as among the best-known women writers of the Ivory Coast. She was one of only two women writers included in l'Anthologie de la littérature ivoirienne. Regina Yaou has said that both Bolli and Kaya experienced frustrations in entering the literary world.