Véronique Tadjo
Véronique Tadjo (* 1955 in Paris ) is an Ivorian writer, poet, children's book author and illustrator.
Life
Tadjo is the daughter of an Ivorian father and a French mother. She spent most of her childhood in Abidjan , where she also began her literary studies at Abidjan University. She did her doctorate on African-American literature at the Sorbonne in Paris , and from 1983 she conducted research at Howard University in Washington DC. She then taught for some time at the Institute for English at the Université Nationale de Côte d'Ivoire in Abidjan, after which she lived for some time in France , Great Britain , Kenya and Mexico . Today she lives and teaches in Johannesburg ( South Africa ).
Her first publication was the volume of poetry Latérite (1983) in French. This volume was awarded the literary prize of the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique . This was followed by the novels Le Royaume aveugle (1991), A vol d'oiseau (1992) and Champs de bataille et d'amour (1999). She is also known for numerous books for children and young people, which she sometimes illustrates herself.
Véronique Tadjo was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.
She has held writing and illustration workshops in several African countries, including the 1998 writing project Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoir ( Writing against oblivion ). The aim here was to break the silence of African intellectuals about this event by studying in Kigali , visiting the crime scenes of the Rwandan genocide and speaking to survivors. L'Ombre d'Imana (published in 2000) is the result of her personal examination of what she saw.
Her book Reine Pokou was published in 2005 , and in the same year she was also a winner of the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire .
Her last published book is Loin de mon père (2010).
Works
- In bird flight . In: Gudrun Honke (Ed.): Die Mondfrau. 23 new stories from French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. Übers. Sigrid Groß. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1998 ISBN 3-87294-805-9 , pp. 96-108 (first Paris, 1992 - with a short biography)
Web links
- Véronique Tadjo
- Literature by and about Véronique Tadjo in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Véronique Tajdo on Afrikaroman.de
- ↑ Bibliography on veroniquetadjo.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tadjo, Véronique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tajdo, Véronique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ivorian writer, poet, children's book author and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |