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Continuing on a Difficult Path: A Profile of Veronique Tadjo |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / WRITERS AND WRITING |
| Author: Charles R. Larson |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 1,855 Words, 11,046 Characters |
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As part of my research for an upcoming book on the plight of African authors, I sent numerous writers a questionnaire about their publishing experiences; Tadjo's responses demonstrate that the continent's Francophone writers share the difficulties of its authors who write in English. When asked to describe her career as a writer, she indicates that she was successful particularly at the beginning, but that frustrations of the market have intervened in recent years. She is not the first to admit that writers in many countries--particularly in England and the United States--can often relate negative stories about publishing.
Laterite, her first volume of poems, was published in 1983, largely because she had entered a literary competition and won first prize (Prix de l'Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique). When she received a telephone call from Hatier, a well-known publisher of Francophone African writers, she was especially pleased because Hatier had recently initiated an African writers' series called "Monde Noir Poche." According to Tadjo, the titles in the series "were so...
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...ause I cannot explain it in any other way. I am interested in life in its entirety, and this is why I have an aversion to giving names to my characters. I want the readers to see them as human beings, first of all. And these human beings are faced with challenges and struggles they must overcome if they want to retain their humanity in the unfavorable context of an African society in crisis."
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