Playwright, poet and director, Kouam Tawa was born in 1974 in western Cameroon. He resides in his hometown and devotes himself to literature, theater and the animation of writing workshops. He has conducted writing and drama workshops in a dozen countries in the French-speaking world and has published some thirty books, most of them for young people.
He won the first ACCT prize for African literature for young people, the poetry prize of the Lire et faire lire readers, and was the recipient of writing grants from the Association Beaumarchais, the Centre National du Livre, the AFAA-Beaumarchais "En quête d'auteurs" program, the DMDTS, the CulturesFrance "Visa pour la création" program, ARTCENA, and the Institut Français "Des mots à la scène" program.
He has been in residency at the Maison des auteurs·trices des Francophonies - Des écritures à la scène in Limoges, at the Triangle - cité de la danse de Rennes, at the Résidence d'auteurs dramatiques francophones en Valais, at the Résidence 10 sur 10 de Brunow, at the 104 (Cent Quatre), at the Récollets, at the Villa Bloch de Poitiers, at the Collectif 12 à Mantes la Jolie and many times at the Cité internationale des arts.