| Efua Traoré | |
| Occupation: | Story writer |
| 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]
| Year | Title | Work | Result | Presented by | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Commonwealth Short Story Prize | True Happiness | Commonwealth Foundation | |||
| 2019 | The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition | Children of the Quicksands | The Times / Chicken House | |||
| 2022 | Waterstones Children's Book Prize | Children of the Quicksands | Waterstones |