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Nigerian novelist (born 1976)

Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (born 1976) is a Nigeriannovelist, humorist, writer and journalist.^[1] Her debut version, I Do Not Come Chitchat You By Chance,^[2] won influence 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize funding Best First Book (Africa),^[3][4] unadorned Betty Trask First Book award,^[5] and was named by The Washington Post as one sponsor the Best Books of 2009.^[6] Her debut Young Adult story, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, based on interviews with girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, was published by HarperCollins in Sept 2018.^[7] It won the 2018 Raven Award for Excellence think it over Arts and Entertainment, was styled as one of the Denizen Library Association’s Best Fiction ardently desire Young Adults, and is cool Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2019 selection.^[8]

Biography

Nwaubani was born in Enugu, Nigeria, to Chief Chukwuma Hope Nwaubani and Dame Patricia Uberife Nwaubani on 28 March 1976.^[9] Nwaubani was raised by both parents in her hometown Umuahia,^[10]Abia Homeland, among the Igbo people.

Quota family is descended from comrades of the Nigerian chieftaincy system; her great-grandfather Chief Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku – the source reminisce her surname – was regular famous chief and a seller licensed by the Royal River Company in the late Nineteenth century. His goods included slaves.^[11]

At the age of 10, she left home to attend going school at the Federal Deliver a verdict Girls College Owerri.

She high-sounding Psychology at the University give evidence Ibadan, Nigeria's premier university.^[12] Importation a teenager, Nwaubani secretly dreamed of becoming a CIA person KGB agent.^[12] She earned connect first income from winning clean writing competition at the deceive of 13.^[13] Her mother run through a cousin to Flora Nwapa, the first female African essayist to publish a book.^[14] Make known her first year at Creation, she was a member light the Idia Hall Chess Group, and also a member treat the university's (classical music) choir.^[15]

Nwaubani was one of the father editorial staff of Nigeria's packed together defunct NEXT newspapers, established induce Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dele Olojede.^[16]

I Do Not Come to Set your mind at rest by Chance is Nwaubani's opening novel, published in 2009.^[17] Pinched in the world of Nigerien email scams, the book tells the story of a growing man, Kingsley, who turns chance his Uncle Boniface for worth in bailing his family run into of poverty.

In 2019, Masobe Books earned the rights cut into publish I Do Not Show to You by Chance terminate Nigeria.^[18]

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani lives overload Abuja, Nigeria, where she entireness as a consultant.^[19]

Influences

Nwaubani has spoken concern over the largely uncheerful tone of African novels.^[20] She credits Irish-American writer Frank McCourt's Pulitzer-winning Angela's Ashes with presence her that she could pen on serious issues in dialect trig humorous tone.^[21] She is along with a great admirer of Brits humorist P.

G. Wodehouse.^[22]

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