Sefi Atta

Sefi Atta at Meridian Little Theatre in 2021, 13 April 2021This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Sefi Atta at Meridian Little Theatre in 2021, 13 April 2021

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Sefi Atta was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. A former accountant, she is the author of Everything Good Will Come, News From Home and Swallow. Her short stories have appeared in journals like PEN International and World Literature Today, and have won prizes from Zoetrope and Red Hen Press. Also a playwright, her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC and her stage plays have been produced internationally. In 2006 Everything Good Will Come was awarded the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and in 2009 News From Home received the Noma Award For Publishing in Africa.