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Nigerian novelist (born 1976)

Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (born 1976) is a Nigeriannovelist, humorist, essayist and journalist.^[1] Her debut novel, I Do Not Come To You By Chance,^[2] won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Africa),^[3][4] a Betty Trask First Book award,^[5] and was named by The Washington Post as one of the Best Books of 2009.^[6] Her debut Young Adult novel, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, based on interviews with girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, was published by HarperCollins in September 2018.^[7] It won the 2018 Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment, was named as one of the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults, and is a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2019 selection.^[8]

Biography

Nwaubani was born in Enugu, Nigeria, to Chief Chukwuma Hope Nwaubani and Dame Patricia Uber