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          I was born in Nigeria in I'm working on a PhD on the West African Student's Union at King's College London.

        1. Nigerian novelist Chibundu Onuzo dreams of returning to Lagos, but she worries she'll struggle to adapt in the city of her birth.
        2. Born in , Chibundu Onuzo grew up in Lagos, moved to the U.K. in and signed her first book deal at Published in by Faber, her.
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        4. Award winning author of two novels, 'The Spider King's Daughter,' (Faber, ) and 'Welcome to Lagos,' (Faber, ).

          5. Born in , Chibundu Onuzo grew up in Lagos, moved to the U.K. in and signed her first book deal at Published in by Faber, her..

          Chibundu Onuzo

          Nigerian novelist (born 1991)

          Imachibundu Oluwadara OnuzoFRSL (born 1991) is a Nigerian novelist.

          Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award,[1] was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize[2] and the Commonwealth Book Prize,[3] and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize[4] and the Etisalat Prize for Literature.[5]

          Biography

          Chibundu Onuzo was born in 1991 in Nigeria, the youngest of four children of parents who are doctors, and grew up in Lagos.[6][7] She moved to England when she was 14 to study at an all-girls' school in Winchester, Hampshire, for her GCSEs,[8] and at the age of 17 began writing her first novel, which was signed two years later by Faber and Faber and was published when she was 21.[9][10] She was the youngest female writer ever taken on by the publisher.[11] Reviewing her second book, Welcome to Lag