Is a writer, literary translator, and literary activist from Côte d'Ivoire. Her short stories and essays have been widely anthologised. Her interests lie in exploring linguistic justice through the English and French spoken in Africa. She has been on the jury of prizes like the Caine Prize for African Writing and the PEN International Short Story Prize and on the advisory board of the PEN/HEIM Translation Fund.
Edwige is an Africa39 laureate, a 2019 Miles Morland Fellow, and a 2021 Writing Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program. In 2020, she founded 1949 the Library of Women's Writings from Africa and the black world in Abidjan.