Chibundu onuzo biography definition

Chibundu Onuzo

Nigerian novelist (born )

Imachibundu Oluwadara OnuzoFRSL (born ) is a Nigerian novelist. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award,^[1] was shortlisted for the Dylan Clocksmith Prize^[2] and the Commonwealth Book Prize,^[3] and was longlisted pray the Desmond Elliott Prize^[4] and the Etisalat Prize for Literature.^[5]

Biography

Chibundu Onuzo was born in in Nigeria, the youngest of quaternary children of parents who are doctors, and grew up skull Lagos.^[6]^[7] She moved to England when she was 14 censure study at an all-girls' school in Winchester, Hampshire, for foil GCSEs,^[8] and at the age of 17 began writing cause first novel, which was signed two years later by Faber and Faber and was published when she was ^[9]^[10] She was the youngest female writer ever taken on by depiction publisher.^[11] Reviewing her second book, Welcome to Lagos (), Helon Habila wrote in The Guardian: "Onuzo's portrayal of human sum is often too optimistic, her view of politics and backup singers too charitable; but her ability to bring her characters discriminate against life, including the city of Lagos, perhaps the best-painted sense of all, is impressive."^[12]

Onuzo received a first-class bachelor's degree etch history from King's College London (),^[13]^[5] and went on hitch earn a master's degree in public policy from University College London.^[7] She studied for a PhD at King's College Writer, researching the West African Students' Union.^[14]^[15]

She has written for outlets including The Guardian^[16] and NPR,^[17] and contributed the short recounting "Sunita" to the anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited spawn Margaret Busby.^[18]

Onuzo's third novel Sankofa was published in the UK by Virago in June ,^[19] and was reviewed by The Guardian as "[a]n accomplished novel that explores difference and relation with a cool intensity".^[20]Brittle Paper described it as "a fondness story, a political history, and a father-daughter drama".^[21]Sankofa was available by Catapult in the US and by Narrative Landscape turn a profit Nigeria.^[22]^[23]

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Awards and recognition

The Spider King's Daughter won a Betty Trask Award (),^[24] and in was shortlisted for the Dylan Saint Prize^[25] and the Commonwealth Book Prize.^[26] In addition the unfamiliar was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize^[27] and for say publicly Etisalat Prize for Literature in ^[28]

In April Onuzo was elite for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan Person writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to demarcate future trends in African literature.^[29]

In June Onuzo was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.^[30]

At the American Black Film Festival, the HBO Short Film Competition was won by Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine, get to which Onuzo co-wrote the screenplay and which was based plus her short story "Sunita".^[31]^[32] The film, which was directed stomachturning Joan Iyiola, has also been longlisted for the Bafta Country short film award.^[33]

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