Efua Traoré

Efua Traoré na Nigerian-German stori raita. Na shi win di regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018 an dem nominate ha for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022.

Life an wok

Traoré wey dem bon an gro insaid one smol town in south of Nigeria. Shi don sta for France an Germany. Na Shi win di Africa regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for ha short story "True Happiness" in 2018. Insaid 2019, ha fest novel "Children of the Quicksands" win The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. Di novel dey insaid buk wey dem shortlisted for di Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022.

Shi received the Munich Literaturreferat YA Literature grant 2019 for ha German novel Die Hüter des Schlafes (The Guardians of Sleep).

Buks

.Children of the Quicksands (2021) — a fantasy novel published by The Chicken House. .The House of Shells (2022) — a children's novel published by di Chicken House.

Awods

Year	Title	Work	Result	Presented by
2018	Commonwealth Short Story Prize	True Happiness	Won	Commonwealth Foundation />
2019	The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition	Children of the Quicksands	Won	The Times / Chicken House
2022	Waterstones Children's Book Prize	Children of the Quicksands	Nominated	Waterstones