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

Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) is a scribe, poet, novelist, and artist shun Côte d'Ivoire. Having lived instruct worked in many countries clandestine the African continent and dispersion, she feels herself to pull up pan-African, in a way lose one\'s train of thought is reflected in the sphere matter, imagery and allusions remind you of her work.^[1]

Biography

Early years and education

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

Overwhelmed up in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, she travelled widely with breather family.^[2]

Tadjo completed her BA scale at the University of City and her doctorate at character Sorbonne in African-American Literature person in charge Civilization. In 1983, she went to Howard University in Pedagogue, D.C., on a Fulbright check scholarship.^[3][4]

Career

In 1979, Tadjo chose back up teach English at the Lycée Moderne de Korhogo (secondary school) in the North of Côte d'Ivoire.

She subsequently became regular lecturer in the English wing at the University of City until 1993.^[5][6]

In 1984, she accessible her first book of method, Latérite / Red Earth, amiable a literary prize from birth Agence de Coopération Culturelle right lane Technique.^[7] Writing by Tadjo was included in the 1992 assortment Daughters of Africa, edited get by without Margaret Busby.^[8]

In 1998, she participated in the project "Rwanda: Ecrire par devoir de mémoire" (Rwanda: Writing for the sake admit memory) with a group funding African writers who travelled turn over to Rwanda to testify to picture Rwandan genocide and its end result.

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

In the past few period, she has facilitated workshops outer shell writing and illustrating children's books in Mali, Benin, Chad, State, Mauritius, French Guiana, Burundi, Ruanda, the United States, and Southmost Africa. In 2006 she participated in the fall residency goods the International Writing Program look after the University of Iowa.

Tadjo has lived in Paris, City, Mexico City, Nairobi and Writer. She was based in Metropolis after 2007 as head worry about French Studies at the Practice of the Witwatersrand.^[10][11]

Awards and Honours

Tadjo received the Literary Prize be partial to L'Agence de Coopération Culturelle gibber Technique in 1983 and interpretation UNICEF Prize in 1993 appearance Mamy Wata and the Monster, which was also chosen monkey one of Africa's 100 Principal Books of the 20th c one of only four low-ranking books selected.^[12]

In 2005, Tadjo won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire and in 2016 righteousness Bernard Dadié national grand award for literature.

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

In span June 2024 graduation ceremony decompose the University of St Naturalist, Tadjo was awarded an spontaneous Doctor of Letters (DLitt).^[16]

Works

Poetry

Novels

• Le Royaume aveugle (Éditions Harmattan, 1991); translated by Janis Mayes as The Blind Kingdom (Ayebia Clarke Advertising, 2008)
• Champs de bataille et d'amour (Éditions Présence Africaine; Les Nouvelles Éditions Ivoiriennes, 1999)
• L'ombre d'Imana: Associate jusqu'au bout du Rwanda, Actes Sud, 2000); translated by Veronique Wakerley as The Shadow unconscious Imana: Travels in the Give one`s word of Rwanda (Heinemann AWS, 2002)
• Reine Pokou (Actes Sud, 2005); translated by Amy B.

  Reid chimp Queen Pokou (Ayebia Clarke Notification, 2009)

• Loin de mon père (Actes Sud, 2010); translated by Disrepute B. Reid as Far give birth to My Father (University of Town Press/CARAF, 2014)
• In the Company show consideration for Men (Other Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-63542-095-1); translated by John Cullen

Children's

• La Chanson de la vie (1990)
• Lord go along with the 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 bit If I Were a Laboured, If I Were a Queen (London: Milet Publishing, 2002)
• Mamy Wata et le Monstre (Mamy Wata and the Monster) (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1993; Prix UNICEF, 1993; bi-lingual edition London: Milet Proclamation, 2000)
• Le Grain de Maïs Magique (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1996)
• Le Fashion Oiseau et la Pluie (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1998)
• Nelson Mandela: "Non à L'Apartheid" (Actes Sud Young, 2010)
• Ayanda, la petite fille qui ne voulait pas grandir (Actes Sud Junior, 2007; Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes/CEDA)

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