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Isaïe Biton Koulibaly

Died in 2021

Isaïe Biton Koulibaly was born on 7 June 1949 in Treichville, a district of Abidjan. For more than thirty years he headed the literary department of the Nouvelles Éditions ivoiriennes, until his retirement on 13 January 2005. He came to writing in the late seventies through children's books, and then published short stories, novels and essays. He received the Nyonda prize in 2002, the Ivorian grand prize for letters in 2005 and the Yambo Ouologuem prize in 2008, and died in Abidjan on 10 November 2021.

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