Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German story writer. She won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018 and was nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022.
Efua Traoré | |
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| Occupation | Story writer |
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| Awards | Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2018) |
Life and career
editTraoré was born and raised in a small town in the south of Nigeria. She has also resided in France and Germany.[1]
She won the Africa regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "True Happiness" in 2018.[2] In 2019, her debut novel "Children of the Quicksands" won The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition.[3] The novel was also shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022.[4]
She received the Munich Literaturreferat YA Literature grant 2019 for her German novel Die Hüter des Schlafes (The Guardians of Sleep).[5]
Books
edit- Children of the Quicksands (2021) — a fantasy novel published by The Chicken House[6]
- The House of Shells (2022) — a children's novel published by The Chicken House
Awards
edit| Year | Title | Work | Result | Presented by | Ref. |
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| 2018 | Commonwealth Short Story Prize | True Happiness | Won | Commonwealth Foundation | [2] |
| 2019 | The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition | Children of the Quicksands | Won | The Times / Chicken House | [3] |
| 2022 | Waterstones Children's Book Prize | Children of the Quicksands | Nominated | Waterstones | [4] |
References
edit- ^ Ibeh, Chukwuebuka (April 15, 2022). "Efua Traorè is Cover Star for Inaugural Masobe Quarterly Magazine". brittle paper.
- ^ a b Omilana, Timileyin (27 June 2018). "Nigerian shortlisted for £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018". The Guardian Nigeria.
- ^ a b O’Connell, Alex (September 13, 2019). "Efua Traoré, winner of the Times/Chicken House children's fiction competition". The Times.
- ^ a b Sherwin, Adam (February 10, 2022). "Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlist shows TikTok influencers driving sales surge". i News.
- ^ "Münchner Literaturstipendien". Literaturhaus München (in German). Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "The best children's books of 2021". The Guardian. 12 December 2021.