Véronique Tadjo

Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) is a writer, poet, novelist, and artist from Côte d'Ivoire.

Born in Paris, Véronique Tadjo was the daughter of an Ivorian civil servant and a French painter and sculptor. Brought up in Abidjan, she travelled widely with her family.^[1] Tadjo completed her BA degree at the University of Abidjan and her doctorate at the Sorbonne. She received the Literary Prize of L'Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique in 1983 and the UNICEF Prize in 1993. Tadjo won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire in 2005.

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Works

Poetry

Latérite (poems; Éditions Hatier "Monde noir Poche", 1984). Bi-lingual edition, Red Earth - Latérite (Washington University Press, 2006)
A vol d'oiseau, Éditions Harmattan; 1986); translated as As The Crow Flies (AWS Heinemann, 2001)
A mi-chemin (poems; Éditions Harmattan, 2000)

Novels

Le Royaume aveugle (novel; Éditions Harmattan, 1991); translated by Janis Mayes as The Blind 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 as The Shadow of Imana (Heinemann AWS, 2002)
Reine Pokou (Actes Sud, 2005); translated as Queen Poku (Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2009)
Loin de mon père (Actes Sud, 2010)

Children's

La Chanson de la vie (for children; 1990)
Lord of the Dance: An African Retelling (Le Seigneur de la Danse; Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1993; 1988)
Grandma Nana (Grand-Mère Nanan; Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1996; for children; 2000)
Masque, raconte-moi (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes)
Si j´étais roi, si j´étais reine (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes)
Mamy Wata et le Monstre (Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes, 1993; Prix Unicef, 1993)
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 ne voulait pas grandir (Actes Sud Junior, 2007; Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes/CEDA)

References

^ Véronique Tadjo: An author from the Ivory Coast writing in French

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