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.
Life and career Traoré was born and raised in a small town in the south of Nigeria. She has also resided in France and Germany.
She won the Africa regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize 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 Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022.
She received the Munich Literaturreferat YA Literature grant 2019 for her German novel Die Hüter des Schlafes (The Guardians of Sleep).
Books Children of the Quicksands (2021) — a fantasy novel published by The Chicken House The House of Shells (2022) — a children's novel published by The Chicken House
Awards YearTitleWorkResultPresented byRef.2018Commonwealth Short Story Prize True Happiness Commonwealth Foundation2019The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition Children of the QuicksandsThe Times / Chicken House2022Waterstones Children's Book Prize Children of the QuicksandsWaterstones
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External links Official website