Flora Nwapa
(1931-1993)
Nigerian writer
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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 was also acknowledged as 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 at the age of 30 years 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.
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13 January 1931 Oguta, Nigeria
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| Died |
16 October 1993 (aged 62) Enugu, Nigeria
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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