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Sefi Atta

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Biography

Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in January 1964, to a family of five children. Her father Abdul-Aziz Atta was the Secretary to Federal Government and Head of the Civil Service until his death in 1972, and she was raised by her mother Iyabo Atta. She attended Queen’s College, Lagos, and Millfield School in England. In 1985, she graduated with a B.A. degree from Birmingham University. She qualified as a chartered accountant in England and as CPA in the United States, where she migrated in 1994. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2001. She is married to Gboyega Ransome-Kuti, a medical doctor, and son of Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, and they have one daughter, Temi.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

Shortlisted for the Macmillan Writers Prize For Africa in 2002, winning the Red Hen Press Short Story Award in 2003, receiving the PEN International David TK Wong Prize in 2005, making the shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2006, Won Wole Soyinka Proize for Literature in Africa and being named a semifinalist for The National Playwrights Conference in 2021, among other achievements.

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