Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

1976–

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a Nigerian novelist, essayist and journalist, born in Enugu in 1976 and brought up in Umuahia. She studied psychology at the University of Ibadan and worked on the newspaper NEXT. Her first novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance (2009), about a young man drawn into the world of email scams, received a Betty Trask Award in 2010 and won that year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Africa). Her young adult novel Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree (2018) drew on interviews with girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. She lives in Abuja.

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