Edwige-Renée Dro

Edwige-Renée Dro is a writer, translator and literary activist from Côte d'Ivoire. She is co-founder of the literature collective Abidjan Lit.[1]

Career

In 2014 Edwige-Renée Dro was named as one of those chosen for the Africa39 project intended to showcase 39 promising young African writers under the age of 40,[2][3] and was included in the anthology Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (edited by Ellah Allfrey, 2014).

She was a PEN International New Voices award judge,[3] and was also on the judging panel of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2016.[4]

About the literature collective that she co-founded in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, she has said: "Whatever Abidjan Lit is, it wants to put books at the centre of lives and at the heart of cities, cities in Côte d’Ivoire but also cities throughout the black world."[5] Other literary ventures with which she has been involved include Jalada and Writivism.[6]

She was awarded a Morland Writing Scholarship in 2018.[7]

In March 2020 she opened a public library with a focus on women's writing from Africa and black diaspora, located in Yopougon, Abidjan, and called "1949" to commemorate the Ivorian women who in 1949 marched against colonial power.[8]

She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[9]

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