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- ISBN 9781911284802
- Weight: 122g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Monique Ilboudo is a Burkinabe writer activist and academic whose work focuses on the promotion of women's rights and citizenship. She is a regular newspaper contributor known in particular for her column Féminin pluriel (1992-1995) which addressed the situation of women in her country. Her first novel 'Le Mal de Peau' (1992) won a national prize in Burkina Faso. She has also held political office as both a minister and ambassador. Yarri is a writer and a translator of French and Italian with feet in several cultures and a love for building bridges. She entered the field of literary translation after years of activism for diversity in the arts. As a non-fiction writer she has published in 'Africa is a Country African Arguments Courrier International Lolwe and Welt-Sichten'. She was a fellow of the inaugural Goethe Institut Young African Writers Residency in 2021 and is working on a collection of essays and poems. Of Sierra Leonean and Ugandan origin Yarri currently lives in Burkina Faso. She studied French Language and Literature at the University of Virginia in the US and holds a masters degree from Sciences Po Paris. She is the translator of Monique Ilboudos 'So Distant from My Life'.
