Chika Unigwe
Nigerian writer · Belgium · On the map · Writers · Born 1974 · age 52
Chika Nina Unigwe is a Nigerian-born Igbo novelist who writes in English and Dutch. She was the winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2012 for her novel On Black Sisters' Street. In April 2014, she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40.
Chika Unigwe is read about 16 times a day, in 13 languages.
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She is on the Board of Trustees of pan-African literary initiative Writivism, and set up the Awele Creative Trust in Nigeria to support young writers. She has served as a Man Booker International judge and chair of the judges for the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2023, she was made a Knight of the Order of the Crown (Belgium).
