Véronique Tadjo

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Véronique Tadjo (born in 1955) is a writer, poet, novelist, and artist from Côte d'Ivoire. She completed her BA degree at the University of Abidjan and her doctorate at the Sorbonne, and she received the Literary Prize of L'Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique in 1983 and the UNICEF Prize in 1993. Tadjo lived in London with her husband and children but moved later to East Africa.

[edit] Works

• Latérite (poems, 1984)
• As The Crow Flies (poems, 1986)
• Lord of the Dance: An African Retelling (for children; 1988)
• La Chanson de la vie (for children; 1990)
• The Shadow of Imana
• Le Royaume aveugle (novel; 1991).
• Grandma Nana (Children's book 2000).