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Rita Omokha, journalist and author; Kole Omotosho (born 1943), novelist; Kola Onadipe (1922–1988) Nuzo Onoh (born 1962), African horror author; Chibundu Onuzo (born 1991) Osonye Tess Onwueme (born 1955) Nduka Onwuegbute (born 1969) Ifeoma Onyefulu (born 1959) Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia; Bukola Oriola (born 1976) Romeo Oriogun; Dennis ...
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) is a non-profit organization that promotes Nigerian literature. It represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. [1] [2] The immediate past President is Alhaji Denja Abdullahi.
Post 2010 Nigerian literature focuses on real life in metropolitan Nigeria and the influence of social networks on Nigerian social life. Among the younger Nigerian authors is Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, who won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the best debut novel with I Do Not Come to You by Chance in 2010. It describes the story of a young ...
List of Nigerian writers This page was last edited on 15 September 2024, at 20:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
This is a list of Nigerien writers ... Boubacar Hama Beidi (born 1951), educator, author, and politician; Boubou Hama (1906–1982), politician and writer;
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013), Nigeria; ... Monique Ilboudo (born 1959) is an author and human rights activist from, Burkina Faso; Jowhor Ile (born 1980), Nigeria;
Nigeria Prize for Literature is a Nigerian literary award given annually since 2004 to honor literary erudition by Nigerian authors. The award rotates among four genres; fiction , poetry , drama and children's literature , repeating the cycle every four years.
Since the early 1990s, several novels have been published to mark the advent of the third generation of Nigerian writers. During this time, some Nigerian writers wrote breakaway literature writings, which were quite different from the norm; such writings include: The Famished Road (1991) by Ben Okri, The Icarus Girl (2005) by Helen Oyeyemi, GraceLand (2004) by Chris Abani and Masters of the ...