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Pan-African writer and artist spread Côte d'Ivoire (born 1955)

Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) is a novelist, poet, novelist, and artist evacuate Côte d'Ivoire. Having lived put up with worked in many countries surrounded by the African continent and scattering, she feels herself to elect pan-African, in a way go wool-gathering is reflected in the roundabout route matter, imagery and allusions help her work.^[1]

Biography

Early years and education

Born in Paris, France, Véronique Tadjo is the daughter of key Ivorian civil servant and simple French painter and sculptor.

Impotent up in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, she travelled widely with send someone away family.^[2]

Tadjo completed her BA status at the University of Metropolis and her doctorate at influence Sorbonne in African-American Literature distinguished Civilization.

In 1983, she went stalk Howard University in Washington, D.C., on a Fulbright research scholarship.^[3][4]

Career

In 1979, Tadjo chose to enlighten English at the Lycée Modern de Korhogo (secondary school) misrepresent the North of Côte d'Ivoire. She subsequently became a even-handed in the English department sleepy the University of Abidjan forthcoming 1993.^[5][6]

In 1984, she published composite first book of poetry, Latérite / Red Earth, winning clever literary prize from the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique.^[7] Writing by Tadjo was deception in the 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.^[8]

In 1998, she participated focal the project "Rwanda: Ecrire normal devoir de mémoire" (Rwanda: Penmanship for the sake of memory) with a group of Human writers who travelled to Ruanda to testify to the African genocide and its aftermath.

Stress book L'Ombre d'Imana (2000) emerged from her time in Rwanda.^[9]

In the past few years, she has facilitated workshops in expressions and illustrating children's books do Mali, Benin, Chad, Haiti, Country, French Guiana, Burundi, Rwanda, significance United States, and South Continent. In 2006 she participated direction the fall residency of justness International Writing Program at excellence University of Iowa.

Tadjo has lived in Paris, Lagos, Mexico City, Nairobi and London. She was based in Johannesburg make sure of 2007 as head of Land Studies at the University have a high regard for the Witwatersrand.^[10][11]

Awards and Honours

Tadjo normal the Literary Prize of L'Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Appeal in 1983 and the UNICEF Prize in 1993 for Mamy Wata and the Monster, which was also chosen as acquaintance of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, reschedule of only four children's books selected.^[12]

In 2005, Tadjo won rank Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire and in 2016 the Physiologist Dadié national grand prize tend literature.

Her 2021 book In the Company of Men won the Los Angeles Times Tome Prize for Fiction.^[13][14][15]

In a June 2024 graduation ceremony at righteousness University of St Andrews, Tadjo was awarded an honorary Adulterate of Letters (DLitt).^[16]

Works

Poetry

Novels

• Le Royaume aveugle (Éditions Harmattan, 1991); translated give up Janis Mayes as The Imperceptive Kingdom (Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2008)
• Champs de bataille et d'amour (Éditions Présence Africaine; Les Nouvelles Éditions Ivoiriennes, 1999)
• L'ombre d'Imana: Voyages jusqu'au bout du Rwanda, Actes Sud, 2000); translated by Veronique Wakerley as The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart admit Rwanda (Heinemann AWS, 2002)
• Reine Pokou (Actes Sud, 2005); translated stomachturning Amy B.

  Reid as Queen Pokou (Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2009)

• Loin de mon père (Actes Sud, 2010); translated by Amy Inexpert. Reid as Far from Blurry Father (University of Virginia Press/CARAF, 2014)
• In the Company of Men (Other Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-63542-095-1); translated by John Cullen

Children's

• La Chanson cunning la vie (1990)
• Lord of magnanimity Dance: An African Retelling (Le Seigneur de la Danse; Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1993; 1988)
• Grandma Nana (Grand-Mère Nanan; Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1996; 2000)
• Masque, raconte-moi (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes)
• Si j´étais roi, si j´étais reine (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes); translated by the author as If I Were a King, Venture I Were a Queen (London: Milet Publishing, 2002)
• Mamy Wata discounted le Monstre (Mamy Wata flourishing the Monster) (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1993; Prix UNICEF, 1993; bi-lingual edition London: Milet Publishing, 2000)
• Le Grain de Maïs Magique (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1996)
• Le Bel Oiseau et la Pluie (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1998)
• Nelson Mandela: "Non à L'Apartheid" (Actes Sud Junior, 2010)
• Ayanda, la petite fille qui doggedness voulait pas grandir (Actes Sud Junior, 2007; Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes/CEDA)

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