Tati Loutard was born in 1938 in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire and attended the Chaminade High School and the Marianist school in Brazzaville the capital of the Congo.[5] He obtained degrees in modern literature in 1964 and in Italian in 1964 at the University of Bordeaux.[2] Tati Loutard returned to Brazzaville in 1966 to teach at the Centre for Graduate Studies.[1] He published Poèmes de la Mer in 1968 and continued to publish regularly. His teaching career progressed and Tati-Loutard obtained the post of director of both the School of Humanities and the Center for Higher Education in Brazzaville.[7]