Efua Traoré
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- True Happiness (short story)
- Children of the Quicksands (novel)
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| Occupation | Story writer |
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| Awards | Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2018) |
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.
Traoré 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
- 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
