Véronique Tadjo is a poet and novelist, a public
intellectual and critic, and a writer of creative nonfiction and
children’s literature. Her novel Queen Pokou: Concerto for a
Sacrifice, also translated by Amy Reid, was named an NPR Favorite
Book of 2010. The original edition in French won the Le Grand Prix
Littéraire d´Afrique Noire.
Amy Baram Reid is Professor of French Language and
Literature at the New College of Florida, USA.
Véronique Tadjo is certainly one of the most highly acclaimed African francophone writers of our time. Far from My Father is not only about a tragic political situation; it also speaks to just about anyone who has lost a parent, and of how one deals with such a loss. Amy Reid's translation is quite simply excellent.--Cheryl Toman, Case Western Reserve University, author of Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature
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