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is a Nigerian novelist, journalist, essayist, and humorist. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, is set in intriguing world of Nigeria’s ‘419’ email scammers. It won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa), a 2010 Betty Trask First Book award, was a finalist for the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and was named by the Washington Post as one of the Best Books of the Year. Her debut Young Adult novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, is based on dozens of interviews with women and girls kidnapped by terrorist group, Boko Haram. It won the 2018 Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment, was named as one of the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults, is a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2019 selection, a Junior Library Guild selection, and was shortlisted for the 2019 NLNG Nigeria Literature Prize. Nwaubani’s impactful reportage and essays have appeared in scores of publications, including: The New Yorker, New York Times, and Guardian. She writes a monthly column for the BBC’s ‘Letter from Africa’, published online and broadcast on the World Service radio.
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is a Nigerian novelist, journalist, essayist, and humorist. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, is set in intriguing world of Nigeria’s ‘419’ email scammers. It won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa), a 2010 Betty Trask First Book award, was a finalist for the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and was named by the Washington Post as one of the Best Books of the Year. Her debut Young Adult novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, is based on dozens of interviews with women and girls kidnapped by terrorist group, Boko Haram. It won the 2018 Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment, was named as one of the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults, is a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2019 selection, a Junior Library Guild selection, and was shortlisted for the 2019 NLNG Nigeria Literature Prize. Nwaubani’s impactful reportage and essays have appeared in scores of publications, including: The New Yorker, New York Times, and Guardian. She writes a monthly column for the BBC’s ‘Letter from Africa’, published online and broadcast on the World Service radio.
ADAOBI TRICIA NWAUBANI
JULY 14 2023
ADAOBI TRICIA NWAUBANI•JULY 14 2023
Nigerian novelist and author of I Do Not Come to You by Chance, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, decided to write her first novel before knowing what to write about: ‘The story wasn’t burning in my heart or bursting to be let loose on the page. It didn’t feel like there was this one story that I had to tell. But I have always been fascinated by why people do the things they do. While trying to come up with ideas for my novel, I decided on a story that explored that.’