Sophie Heidi Kam

She is considered the first female playwright in Burkina Faso and has been honored at the National Grand Prix for Arts and Letters eight times.

Her first published work came in 1997, when she was included in an anthology put together by Traoré Sibiri Omar for the Swiss cultural exchange organization Nawao Production.

[1][2] Other published works of theater include Nos jours dʼhier and Qu'il en soit ainsi, which won first prize at the National Grand Prix for Arts and Letters in 2012.

Her work deals with society in Burkina Faso and the impact of military conflict in the Sahel on the region's population.

[6] In 2021, her poetry collection Mémoires vivantes won the grand prize at that Ouagadougou International Book Fair, and it was published the following year.