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The book received several positive reviews. [7] It was a New York Times Bestseller, a February 2020 'Read with Jenna' choice [8] [9] and a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime pick. [10] According to the review aggregator Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 6 critic reviews with 5 being "positive" and 1 being "mixed". [11]
Hafsat Abdulwaheed (born 1952), author, poet, writing in Hausa; Dadasare Abdullahi (1918–1984), first female journalist from Northern Nigeria, non-fiction writer, educator; Catherine Acholonu (1951–2014), researcher, author, playwright, socio-political activist, professor; Ayobami Adebayo (born 1988), novelist, short story writer
Nigerian literature may be roughly defined as the literary writing by citizens of the nation of Nigeria for Nigerian readers, addressing Nigerian issues. This encompasses writers in a number of languages, including not only English but Igbo, Urhobo, Yoruba, and in the northern part of the county Hausa and Nupe. [1]
Freshwater was a New York Times Notable Book, [12] was named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker [13] and NPR. [14] Emezi is also recognized as a 2018 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. [15] In 2019, Freshwater was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction — the first time a non-binary transgender author has been nominated ...
The book is mostly set in 1990s Nigeria. Otolorin is caught between a mother controlled both by fear and the temple prophets she looks to for guidance; traditional healers and advisers; and ...
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
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One of Adébáyọ̀'s stories was highly commended in the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. [7] Her poems and stories have been published in several magazines and anthologies, including East Jasmine Review, Farafina Magazine, Saraba Magazine, Kalahari Review, Lawino Magazine, Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of New African Writing, Off the Coast: Maine’s International ...