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Nigerian literature is a literary writing in Nigeria often by her citizens. It encompasses writers in a number of languages spoken in Nigeria including Igbo, Urhobo, Yoruba, Hausa and Nupe. [1] Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe is one of the milestones in African literature.
Idé Adamou (1951– ), poet and novelist; Ousmane Amadou (1948–2018), poet, novelist, lawyer and journalist; Djibo Bakary (1922–1998), politician and writer; Ada Boureïma, writer
This is a list of Nigerian writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
This page is a list of novelists born in or associated with the African country of Nigeria This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Since the early 1990s, several novels have been published to mark the advent of the third generation of Nigerian writers. During this time, some Nigerian writers wrote breakaway literature writings, which were quite different from the norm; such writings include: The Famished Road (1991) by Ben Okri, The Icarus Girl (2005) by Helen Oyeyemi, GraceLand (2004) by Chris Abani and Masters of the ...
LGBTQ literature in Nigeria (1 C, 1 P) M. Literary magazines published in Nigeria (3 P) N. Nigerian books (7 C, 3 P) O. Works by Nnedi Okorafor (1 C, 7 P)
Isidore Okpewho, NNOM (9 November 1941 – 4 September 2016), was a Nigerian novelist and critic. He won the 1976 African Arts Prize for Literature, [1] and the 1993 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Africa.
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. [4]