Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (1931-01-13)13 January 1931 Oguta, Nigeria
Died
16 October 1993(1993-10-16) (aged 62) Enugu, Nigeria
Occupation
Author and publisher
Nationality
Nigerian
Alma mater
University College, Ibadan; Edinburgh University
Genres
Novels; short stories; poems; plays
Notable works
Efuru (1966) Idu (1970) This Is Lagos and Other Stories (1971)
Spouse
Chief Gogo Nwakuche
Children
3
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993), was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature. She was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain. She achieved international recognition with her first novel Efuru, published in 1966 by Heinemann Educational Books. While never considering herself a feminist, she was best known for recreating life and traditions from an Igbo woman's viewpoint.[1]
She published African literature and promoted women in African society.[2] She was one of the first African women publishers when she founded Tana Press in Nigeria in 1970. Nwapa engaged in governmental work in reconstruction after the Biafran War; in particular, she worked with orphans and refugees who were displaced during the war.[3]
^Leisure, Susan "Nwapa, Flora", Postcolonial Studies @ Emory, Emory University, Fall 1996.
^Literary Encyclopedia
^Agbo, Njideka (13 January 2019). "Florence Nwapa: The Mother of African Literature". The Guardian. Nigeria. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
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galvanized the careers of African writers, such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and FloraNwapa. Achebe sought to escape the colonial perspective that framed African...
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to by fans as "the most important female novelist from Nigeria after FloraNwapa and Buchi Emecheta," according to Oyekan Owomoyela. She was born in Anambra...
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Patrick Chamoiseau, Alex Godard, Rose Marie Guiraud (Côte d'Ivoire), FloraNwapa, and Véronique Tadjo (Côte d'Ivoire). Mamy-Wata is also the title of...
buried in tomb G7102 of the Giza East Field Idu (novel), a 1970 novel by FloraNwapa Idu Mishmi (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
world, politics and the preceding generation of Mbari Club writers, FloraNwapa and Buchi Emecheta. The emergence of the third generation of Nigerian...
Obioma, "Feminism, Rebellious Women and Cultural Boundaries: Rereading FloraNwapa and Her Compatriots", Research in African Literatures, 26.2 (1995), JSTOR...
fortnight. They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo won the FloraNwapa Award for Literary Excellence and the Philis Wheatley Book Award at the...
a Writer and Poet. Her book In the Blink of an Eye won the ANA/NDDC FloraNwapa Prize for best female writing in 2008. She is also the Author of Don’t...
(1995). "Feminism, Rebellious Women, and Cultural Boundaries: Rereading FloraNwapa and Her Compatriots". Research in African Literatures. 26 (2): 80–113...
of the ability to marry and have children. Helon Habila, Sefi Atta , FloraNwapa, Iquo Diana Abasi Eke, Zaynab Alkali and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, among...
James Macpherson, poet, collector and publisher of The Poems of Ossian FloraNwapa, Nigerian author, educator and politician Kole Omotosho, Nigerian writer...
Saadawi (in books such as Woman at Point Zero and The Hidden Face of Eve), FloraNwapa (Efuru), Ama Ata Aidoo (Anowa, Changes: A Love Story), and Buchi Emecheta...
Emecheta (1944–2017) Helon Habila (born 1967) Elnathan John (born 1982) FloraNwapa (1931–1993) Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) Ben Okri (born 1959) Ken Saro-Wiwa...
winning a writing competition at the age of 13. Her mother is a cousin to FloraNwapa, the first female African writer to publish a book. In her first year...
Waves, was nominated for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She won the FloraNwapa Society Award for her 2006 book of poetry, Circles of Love. She is on...
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