FINAL SHORTLIST OF
THREE FOR 2012 EDITION OF THE NIGERIA
PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
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The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature has approved a
final shortlist of three books out of the initial shortlist of ten released
last month. The books are Onaedo: The Blacksmith’s Daughter by
Ngozi Achebe, Only a Canvas by Olusola Olugbesan and On
Black Sister’s Street by Chika Unigwe.
Chairman of the Board, Emeritus Professor Ayo Banjo, said the eventual
winner of the competition will be announced on 1st November, 2012,
at a world press conference at Eko Hotel & Suites, Lagos.
Onaedo: The Blacksmith’s Daughter is the story of Onaedo, a
young teenager of Igbo extraction, in the time before the English colonialists,
her daily struggles of being a woman in a patriarchal society and how she dealt
with life, love and at some point, an unloving husband. Ngozi Achebe, a medical
doctor by training, lives in the United States with her children,
Jennifer and Nnamdi and is a practicing physician. Onaedo:
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Only a Canvas is a tale of exhilarating characters from different backgrounds with
dreams intricately woven together to create a tapestry of life. Olusola
Olugbesan is an architect, married with three children and writes as a hobby. Only
a Canvas is Olugbesan’s first novel.
On Black Sister’s Street tells a
gripping story of the lives of four African migrants working the red light
district of Antwerp in Belgium
brought together by bad luck and big dreams into a
sisterhood that will change their lives. The Enugu-born graduate of English
Language and Literature, Chika Unigwe, lives in Belgium. She is married with four
children.
The chairman of the panel of judges is Prof. Francis Abiola Irele,
Provost of the College of Humanities at the Kwara
State University
and Fellow of the Dubois Institute, Harvard University. Other members of the panel are Prof. Angela
Miri, Head of the English Department at the University of Jos, Prof. Sophia
Ogwude, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at University of Abuja, Prof J O J Nwachukwu-Agbada, Professor of African
Literature in the Department of English, Abia State University and Dr. Oyeniyi
Okunoye, a Reader at the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife and a Section Editor of Postcolonial Text, a journal affiliated
to the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
