The Most Famous
WRITERS from Côte d'Ivoire
This page contains a list of the greatest Ivorian Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 2 of which were born in Côte d'Ivoire. This makes Côte d'Ivoire the birth place of the 116th most number of Writers behind Greenland and Guinea.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ivorian Writers of all time. This list of famous Ivorian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ahmadou Kourouma (1927 - 2003)
With an HPI of 51.17, Ahmadou Kourouma is the most famous Ivorian Writer. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
Ahmadou Kourouma (24 November 1927 – 11 December 2003) was an Ivorian novelist.
2. Marguerite Abouet (1971 - )
With an HPI of 32.14, Marguerite Abouet is the 2nd most famous Ivorian Writer. Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Marguerite Abouet (born 1971) is an Ivorian writer of bandes dessinées, best known for her graphic novel series Aya.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as writers born between 1927 and 1971. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include Marguerite Abouet. The most famous deceased writers include Ahmadou Kourouma.
