Chibundu onuzo biography for kids

Nigerian novelist (born 1991)

Imachibundu Oluwadara OnuzoFRSL (born 1991) is a Nigerian novelist. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award,^[1] was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize^[2] and the Commonwealth Book Prize,^[3] and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize^[4] and the Etisalat Prize for Literature.^[5]

Biography

Chibundu Onuzo was born in 1991 in Nigeria, the youngest of four children of parents who are doctors, and grew up in Lagos.^[6][7] She moved to England when she was 14 to study at an all-girls' school in Winchester, Hampshire, for her GCSEs,^[8] and at the age of 17 began writing her first novel, which was signed two years later by Faber and Faber and was published when she was 21.^[9][10] She was the youngest female writer ever taken on by the publisher.^[11] Reviewing her second book, Welcome to Lag