Sefi Atta

Sefi Atta (* 1964 in Lagos , Nigeria ) is a Nigerian writer . She became known as a writer of short stories, novels and radio plays. Her novel Everything Good Will Come has been translated into numerous languages, including German.

Life

Sefi Atta attended Queen's College in Lagos and Millfield School in England . In 1985 she graduated from Birmingham University as a chartered accountant. She then lived in London , where she worked as an auditor . In 1994 she moved from England to the USA . Here she began to write and in 2001 took a course in creative writing at Antioch University , Los Angeles .

Sefi Atta lives in Meridian , Mississippi with her husband, Gboyega Ransome-Kuti, a doctor, and their daughter Temi . She teaches at Mississippi State University .

Works (selection)

• Everything Good Will Come. Farafina, Lagos 2005, ISBN 978-066-302-9 (German: Tell everyone, it will be fine! )
• Swallow. A novel. Farafina, Lagos 2008, ISBN 978-978-48012-8-7 .
• News From Home. Short stories. Lubin & Kleyner, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-9541570-4-3 .
• A bit of difference. Interlink Books, Northampton MA 2012, ISBN 978-1-56656-892-0 (German: Just a part of you. ).

German-language editions

• Tell everyone it'll be fine! Roman, from the English by Sigrid Groß. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 2008, ISBN 978-3-7795-0199-2 (paperback edition. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2011; Unionsverlag-Taschenbuch. Vol. 514). 2011, ISBN 978-3-293-20514-7 .
• Hail on Zamfara. Translated from the English by Eva Plorin. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 2012, ISBN 978-3-7795-0373-6 .
• Just a part of you. Novel. Translated from the English by Eva Plorin. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 2013, ISBN 978-3-7795-0473-3 .

Awards (selection)

• 2003: Red Hen Press Short Story Award, First Prize
• 2004: Mississippi Arts Commission Grant
• 2005: PEN International David TK Wong Prize, First Prize
• 2006: Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
• 2009: Noma Prize for African Literature for Lawless
• 2019: Inclusion in the New Daughters of Africa anthology by Margaret Busby

Web links

• Literature by and about Sefi Atta in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sefi Atta's website (in English)
• Sefi Atta: 'I don't think every literary work should be didactic' (interview )
• Everything good comes as Sefi Atta (in English)
• Sefi Atta: Something Good Comes to Nigerian literature (in English)
• INTERVIEW WITH SEFI ATTA (in English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Afropolitans" in literature: Cosmopolitan citizens with African roots , essay by Claudia Kramatschek on SWR2 Radio on April 16, 2015, accessed May 5, 2015
2. ^ Winning titles. In: The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. Archived from the original on August 10, 2010 ; accessed on August 21, 2010 .