Author/Editor: Sefi Atta

Biography
Sefi Atta
Sefi Atta was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. A former accountant, she is the author of Everything Good Will Come, News From Home and Swallow. Her short stories have appeared in journals like PEN International and World Literature Today, and have won prizes from Zoetrope and Red Hen Press. Also a playwright, her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC and her stage plays have been produced internationally. In 2006 Everything Good Will Come was awarded the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and in 2009 News From Home received the Noma Award For Publishing in Africa.



Website: http://www.sefiatta.com

Events
20 Jul 2012 A Bit of Difference at Yarra Building, Federation Square
Sefi Atta
Spinifex author Sefi Atta is invited as a guest to the Melbourne Writers Festival, where her new book A Bit of Difference will have its worldwide release.

1pm... more

Awards
2004/2005 Awarded the PEN International's David TK Wong Prize
Book Awards
Everything Good Will Come: 2006 Winner, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
Everything Good Will Come: Honourable Mention, Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award (US)
Everything Good Will Come: Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards (US)

Books published by, or available from, Spinifex
Bit of Difference, A
Everything Good Will Come

Out Now
Limen

Limen


Susan Hawthorne

this tiny crack

in our lives

wind and rain strewn

stranded on the limen

that space between

water and sky

rain and...


Town of Love

Town of Love


Anne Ch. Ostby

Now Available

They call them ‘women of love,’ but the lyrical beauty of the term has a hidden dark side: a workforce of...

Blue and Other Stories

Blue and Other Stories


Suniti Namjoshi

Suniti Namjoshi, internationally acclaimed fabulist and poet, brings both depth and lightness of touch to Blue and Other...


The Fabulous Feminist

The Fabulous Feminist


Suniti Namjoshi

It was on a sabbatical in England in the late 1970s that Suniti Namjoshi discovered feminism – or rather, she discovered...

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