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Veronique Tadjo presents, Writing in Difficult Times: Ebola 2014

Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 04:30pm - 06:00pm

Veronique Tadjo flyerVéronique Tadjo is a writer, artist and academic. Born in Paris, she grew up in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where she did most of her studies. After earning a doctorate in Black American Literature and Civilization from the Sorbonne, Paris IV, she did further research as a Fulbright scholar at Howard University.

She went back to Abidjan to lecture at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny for several years. Her work includes poetry collections and novels among which The Shadow of Imana; Queen Pokou (Grand Prix d’Afrique Noire, 2005); Far Away from my Father and En Compagnie des Hommes (The Whispering Tree, translation in progress). She is also an author of books for young people, an illustrator, and a painter. Her work has been translated from the French into numerous languages.

She has lived in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa where she was Head of French and Francophone Studies for 7 years at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She now shares her time between London and Abidjan.

 

The lecture will also include readings from the novel, The Whispering Tree. 

Location: Comparative Literature Seminar Room, AB 4052, CAC