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Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators, and has won numerous awards including being the 2015 recipient of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, he is the first African to win the award. In 1982 he won The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, and in 1999 the Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's award and the Unesco First Prize for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

Meshack Asare, born 1945 in Ghana, studied Fine Arts at the College of Art in Kumasi and taught in Ghana for 12 years between 1967 and 1979. During that period, he took an extension course in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

  • Cat in Search of a Friend
    Cat in Search of a Friend
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • Chipo and the Bird on the Hill
    Chipo and the Bird on the Hill
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • The Cross Drums
    Award
    The Cross Drums
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • Kwajo and the Brassman's Secret
    Kwajo and the Brassman's Secret
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • L'appel de Sosu (Sosu's Call)
    L'appel de Sosu (Sosu's Call)
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • The Magic Goat
    Award
    The Magic Goat
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • Meliga's Day
    Meliga's Day
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • Noma's Sand
    Noma's Sand
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • Sosu's Call
    Award
    Sosu's Call
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
  • Sosu's Call
    Award
    Sosu's Call
    by Meshack Asare
    Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
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