Her work has been translated from the French into several languages including English: As the Crow flies, (2001), The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda, (2002), Queen Pokou (2005) which was awarded Le Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire, Far from my Father (2014) and In the Company of Men (2021). Tadjo writes poetry, novels and books for young people.

She has lived in Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg where she was Head of French and Francophone Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg until 2015. En Compagnie des Hommes 2017), which draws on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa of 2014 to weave a moving reflective fable on “both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity’s place in the world”, acutely relevant to our times.īorn in Paris, Tadjo grew up in Abidjan. This year marks the release of her latest novel in translation, In the Company of Men: the Ebola Tales (first pub. Véronique Tadjo is a writer and painter from Ivory Coast. ‘Brief and haunting, this makes for a timely testament to the destructive powers of pandemics’ – Publishers Weekly Q&A: Véronique Tadjo – On opening up new possibilities with In the Company of Menīy Davina Philomena Kawuma on 18 May, 2021 She shares her time between London, Paris and Abidjan.Home › Conversations with - interview, dialogue, Q&A › Q&A: Véronique Tadjo – On opening up new possibilities with In the Company of Men Some of her titles in English include: As the Crow Flies (2001), The Shadow of Imana (2002), Queen Pokou (2005), Far from My Father (2014), Amour: Fields of Battle, Fields of Love (2019). Her novels have been translated into several languages. She holds a doctorate in Black American literature and civilisation from the Sorbonne Paris IV and was a Fulbright scholar at Howard University in Washington, DC. An award-winning writer, she was born in Paris and grew up in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Tadjo is an author, artist and Honorary Professor at Wits University, where she taught for several years. Tadjo is the winner of the LA Times Fiction Award for her novel In the Company of Men. Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant and, given the pandemic, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity’s place in the world.

Jacana Media and the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship invite you to join Professor Véronique Tadjo for a seminar titled ‘Close to Nature: The creative process of writing the Ebola epidemic’.

AMOUR by Véronique Tadjo