Edwige-Renée Dro

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Edwige-Renée Dro is an Ivorian writer, translator for French and English, and literary activist.

Career

In 2014, 39 promising African authors under 40 years of age were sought for the literature project Africa39 . Edwige-Renée Dro was among those ultimately selected and was included in the anthology Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara , edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey.

Dro's texts have been published in various magazines such as Prufrock ,  Popula and This is Africa .

In 2016 she was a member of the juries of the PEN International New Voices Awards and the Etisalat Prize for Literature .

About the literary collective Abidjan Lit , of which she was a co-founder, she said: “Whatever Abidjan Lit is, it should put books at the center of life and at the heart of cities, cities of the Ivory Coast, but also cities all over the Black World. “She is also involved in several other literary projects such as Jalada and Writivism .

In 2018 she was awarded the Morland Writing Scholarship . She received the prize money for the project to write a biographical novel about Marie Séry Koré, an Ivorian activist who rebelled against the French colonial administration in Ivory Coast in 1949.

2019 it was in the Anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.

In March 2020 she opened a public library specializing in female literature from Africa and the Black Diaspora in Yopougon , a district of Abidjan . Dro sees an important task for African writers and translators in a continent dominated by colonial languages ​​(English, French , Portuguese, Spanish) in appropriating these languages ​​for their own development, making literature available and also building bridges with the African languages .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Edwige Renee Dro . Miles Morland Foundation.
  2. ↑ Margaret Busby : Africa39: How we chose the writers for Port Harcourt World Book Capital 2014 . April 10, 2014.
  3. ^ A b Aaron Bady: Opening the Gate . In: The New Inquiry . February 24, 2016.
  4. ^ Elnathan John: Nigerian writers compete with other African counterparts for literature prize . In: Premium Times . 4th January 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Efemia Chela: Literary activism in Côte d'Ivoire: Edwige-Renée Dro explains the Abidjan Lit phenomenon . In: Johannesburg Review of Books . 7th August 2017.
  6. ^ Edwige-Renée Dro: I Am An African Writer! . Africa39. October 23, 2015.
  7. ^ Morland Writing Scholarships for 2018 . Miles Morland Foundation.
  8. ↑ Margaret Busby: From Ayobami Adebayo to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa . March 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ Ainehi Edoro: Edwige-Renée Dro Opens A Feminist Library in Abidjan . In: Brittle Paper . March 20, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Dro, Edwige-Renée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century