Edwige Dro

Edwige Dro is a writer, literary translator (English and French) and literary curator from Côte d’Ivoire. Her fiction, articles, translations and creative nonfiction have been widely published in Africa, the United Kingdom and North America. As a curator, Edwige works at the intersections of literature, feminist literary productions and art.

Edwige has been jury member of prizes like the Caine Prize for African Writing, the PEN International Short Story Prize and on the advisory boards of organizations such as the PEN/HEIM Translation Fund, Culturescapes and the African Book Festival.

Edwige is a 2014 Africa39 laureate, a 2019 Miles Morland Fellow, and a 2021 Writing Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program.

In 2020, she founded 1949: the library of women's writings from Africa and the black world focused on feminist and women-led decolonial practices, knowledge production and democratization, in Abidjan.