Chika UNIGWE

Biographical record

Surname

UNIGWE

First Name

Chika

Gender

Female

Date of Birth

12 June 1974

Names of Children

4 children

Profession

Writer
Author

Schools Attended with Dates

Federal Government Girls' college in Abuja.. University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1995.. Catholic University of Leuven (KUL).. University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Membership of Professional Bodies/Professional Qualifications

2007 Unesco-Aschberg Fellowship for creative writing
2009 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio Centre, Italy)
2011 HALD Fellowship (HALD Centre, Denmark)
2011 and 2016 Writing Fellowship at the Ledig House (Omi NY, USA)
2013 Writing Fellowing at Cove Park (Scotland)
2014 Writer-in-Residence, Haverford College (Philadelphia PA, USA)
2014 Sylt Fellowship for African Writers

Have you ever been a member of any political party?

N/A

Creative Work/Major Exhibitions

Tear Drops, Enugu: Richardson Publishers, 1993.
Born in Nigeria, Enugu: Onyx Publishers, 1995.
A Rainbow for Dinner. Oxford: Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-95588-8
In the Shadow of Ala; Igbo women's writing as an act of righting. Dissertation, Leiden University, 2004.
Thinking of Angel, 2005.
Dreams, 2004.
The Phoenix. Lagos: Farafina Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-978-48013-6-2
On Black Sisters' Street (translation of Fata Morgana). London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. ISBN 978-0-224-08530-4
Night Dancer. London: Jonathan Cape, 2012. ISBN 978-0-224-09383-5
Black Messiah (2014)
Zwart, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, 2018. A collection of stories and essays in Dutch, collected and edited by Vamba Sherif and Ebissé Rouw. ISBN 978-90-254-5154-7. Contains a story by Unigwe: Anekdotes om rond de tafel te vertellen.

Outstanding Achievements

shortlisted for the Vrouw en Kultuur debuutprijs for the best first novel by a female writer.
won the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition and a Commonwealth Short Story Competition award.
shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
made the top 10 of the Million Writers Award for best online fiction.
she won third prize in the Equiano Fiction Contest.
shortlisted for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature

Other Relevant Information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chika_Unigwe

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chika_Unigwe

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chika_Unigwe