Sefi Atta

Sefi Atta is a Nigerian writer. Her first novel Everything Good Will Come was awarded the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature. She is also the author of a novel, Swallow, and Lawless, a short story collection.

One or the Other: An Essay by Sefi Atta

Essays & Reviews Sefi Atta - May 9, 2008

Everything Good Will Come: an excerpt

Fiction Sefi Atta - June 30, 2005

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