Edwige Dro

Edwige Dro is a writer, literary translator (English and French), and literary curator from Côte d’Ivoire whose work spans fiction, creative nonfiction, and feminist literary advocacy. She works at the intersections of literature, feminist thoughts, and the arts, and her writing and translations have appeared across Africa, the UK, and North America.

She has served on juries for the Caine Prize for African Writing and the PEN International Short Story Prize, and she is on advisory boards such as the PEN/HEIM Translation Fund, Culturescapes, and the African Book Festival. A 2014 Africa39 laureate, she is also a 2019 Miles Morland Fellow and a 2021 International Writing Program Fellow at the University of Iowa.

In 2020, she founded 1949: the Library of Women’s Writings from Africa and the Black World, a feminist space for decolonial practices, knowledge production and its democratization in Abidjan.