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The list of Igbo literary authors with works written in Igbo includes both established and emerging male and female writers: Anthony Uchenna Ubesie (22 February 1950 — 11 February 1994) was an Igbo-language novelist, poet, playwright. Ubesie published series of novels from 1973 till his death.
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Chika Nina Unigwe // ⓘ (born 12 June 1974) is a Nigerian-born Igbo author [1] who writes in English and Dutch.In April 2014, she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.
The first novel in the Yorùbá language was Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (translated by Wole Soyinka as The Forest of A Thousand Daemons), although the literal translation is "The bravery of a hunter in the forest of deities", written in 1938 by Chief Daniel O. Fagunwa (1903–1963).
His novel Drummer Boy (1960), based on the life of Benjamin 'Kokoro' Aderounmu was a perceptive and powerful description of the wandering, homeless and poverty-stricken life of a street artist. [6] His most successful novel was Jagua Nana (1961), [ 7 ] about a Pidgin -speaking Nigerian woman who leaves her husband to work as a prostitute in a ...
The first short novel in Igbo was written by Pita (Peter) Nwana in 1933 (Omenuko, 1935). It is a historical narrative about a poor boy who rises to become a wealthy trader and paramount chief, but sells his apprentices as slaves to compensate himself for losses of goods suffered, and still becomes impoverished. [ 58 ]
He studied Linguistics and Nigerian Languages specializing in the Igbo language at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 1976 to 1980. [5] Prior to that, he worked as a farmer and translator for primary and secondary schools. He translated books that were written in English to Igbo language. [2]