Edwige-Renée Dro
{{Short description|Writer, translator and literary activist from Ivory Coast}}
Edwige-Renée Dro (born 1980s){{cite web|url=https://girlintransit.co.uk/ndoa-spotlight-edwige-renee-dro/|title='NDOA' Spotlight: Edwige-Renée Dro|author=Vanessa|website=Girl in Transit|date=4 February 2020|access-date=1 March 2021}} is a writer, translator and literary activist from Côte d'Ivoire. She is co-founder of the literature collective Abidjan Lit.{{cite web|url=https://milesmorlandfoundation.com/edwige-renee-dro/|title=Edwige Renee Dro|publisher=Miles Morland Foundation}}
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,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/apr/10/port-harcourt-world-book-capital-2014-africa-39 |title=Africa39: How we chose the writers for Port Harcourt World Book Capital 2014|first=Margaret|last=Busby|authorlink=Margaret Busby|newspaper=The Guardian|date= 10 April 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://thenewinquiry.com/opening-the-gate/|title=Opening the Gate|first=Aaron|last=Bady|work=The New Inquiry|date=24 February 2016}} 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, and was also on the judging panel of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2016.{{cite web|url= https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/artsbooks/219586-nigerian-writers-compete-african-counterparts-literature-prize.html|first=Elnathan|last=John|authorlink=Elnathan John|title=Nigerian writers compete with other African counterparts for literature prize|work=Premium Times|date=4 January 2017}}
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."{{cite web|url=https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2017/08/07/literary-activism-in-cote-divoire-edwige-renee-dro-explains-the-abidjan-lit-phenomenon/|title=Literary activism in Côte d’Ivoire: Edwige-Renée Dro explains the Abidjan Lit phenomenon|first=Efemia|last=Chela|work=Johannesburg Review of Books|date=7 August 2017}} Other literary ventures with which she has been involved include Jalada and Writivism.{{cite web|url=https://africa39blog.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/edwige-renee-dro-i-am-an-african-writer/|title=Edwige-Renée Dro: I Am An African Writer!|publisher=Africa39|date=23 October 2015}}
She was awarded a Morland Writing Scholarship in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://milesmorlandfoundation.com/961-2/|title=Morland Writing Scholarships for 2018|publisher=Miles Morland Foundation}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://brittlepaper.com/2020/03/edwige-renee-dro-opens-feminist-library-abidjan/|title=Edwige-Renée Dro Opens A Feminist Library in Abidjan|first=Ainehi|last= Edoro|work=Brittle Paper|date=20 March 2020}}
She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/09/from-ayobami-adebayo-to-zadie-smith-meet-the-new-daughters-of-africa|title=From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Margaret|last=Busby|date= 9 March 2019}}
References
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External links
- [https://edwigedro.wordpress.com/ Edwige Dro] official website.
- James Murua, [https://www.writingafrica.com/edwige-renee-dro-at-afrolit-sans-frontieres-virtual-literary-festival-season-2/ "Edwige Renée Dro at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2"], Writing Africa, 22 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
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