Adaobi Tricia NwaubaniAdaobi Tricia Nwaubani Wins Betty Trask Award
The literary star at the NEXT newspaper of Nigeria, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani has won the Betty Trask Award for her debut novel I Do Not Come to You by Chance. The awards are given for the best novels by young writers under 35 and who are citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations. Miss Nwaubani’s novel has already won the coveted Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best first book in Africa in 2010.
The Betty Trask Awards were announced at the Society of Authors annual Awards Party in Piccadily, London. The prizes are awarded to both published and unpublished traditional or romantic novels.
~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
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