Régina Yaou

Régina Yaou was born on 10 July 1955 in Dabou and was raised by her aunt, a midwife. She wrote her first poems at about twelve and in 1977 won the Nouvelles Éditions Africaines competition with a story that remained unpublished. After Lezou Marie, in 1982, she published some thirty books, including romance novels under pseudonyms and thrillers. She received the President of the Republic's prize of excellence in 2014 and died in Abidjan in November 2017.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelLa Révolte d'AffibaRégina Yaou · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature