Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German story writer. She won the regional

Commonwealth Short Story Prize The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000 to 5,000 words). The prize is open to citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations aged 18 and over. The Commonwealth Short ...

in 2018 and was nominated for the

Waterstones Children's Book Prize The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is there ...

in 2022.

Life and career

Traoré was born and raised in a small town in the south of

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

. She has also resided in

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and

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. She won the Africa regional

for her short story "''True Happiness''" in 2018. In 2019, her debut novel "''Children of the Quicksands''" won ''The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition''. The novel was also shortlisted for the

in 2022. She received the ''Munich Literaturreferat YA Literature grant'' 2019 for her

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novel ''Die Hüter des Schlafes'' (The Guardians of Sleep).

Books

* ''Children of the Quicksands'' (2021) — a fantasy novel published by

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* ''The House of Shells'' (2022) — a children's novel published by The Chicken House

Awards

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Traoré, Efua German people of Nigerian descent Nigerian women novelists Year of birth missing (living people) Nigerian children's writers Living people