SEFI / ATTA
NIGERIA
PROSE
efi Atta was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria. She grew up there and then studied economics in England and worked as a chartered accountant. After mo- ving to the US in 1994, she began to write and, after finishing her studies in creative writing in Los Angeles, changed her profession. Her literary output includes essays, short sto- ries, novels and radio plays. Today, she lives in Mississippi, but almost all her stories are set in Nigeria. With a confident feeling for style, she perceptively describes the lives of people, often in humorous and ironic tones.
In 2010, Tranan published Sefi Atta’s debut novel, Everything Good Will Come, in a Swedish translation by Birgitta Wallin. This book earned her the first Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature in 2006. Her collection of short stor- ies, News from Home, won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 2009, and was presented to her at the Göteborg Book Fair in 2010. Her second novel, Swallow, was published in the US in 2010.
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SEFI ATTA at the ceremony during the göteborg book Fair at which she was presented with the noma award For publishing in aFrica in 2009.
