Chibundu Onuzo
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- Onuzo, Imachibundu Oluwadara
- Geburtstag
- 1991
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Nigeria
- Geburtsort
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Wohnorte
- Lagos, Nigeria
London, England, UK - Ausbildung
- King's College London (BA) (history)
University College London (MA) (social policy)
King's College London (PhD) (in progress) - Berufe
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- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2018)
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- Imachibundu Oluwadara "Chibundu" Onuzo (born 1991) is a Nigerian novelist, Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Etisalat Prize for Literature.[1]
Chibundu Onuzo was born in Nigeria in 1991, the youngest of four children, of parents who are doctors, and grew up there in Lagos.[2][3]
Onuzo has a bachelor's degree in history from King's College London,[4][1] and a master's degree in public policy from University College London.[5] As of 2017, she is studying for a PhD at King's College London
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The Spider King’s Daughter is a contemporary YA romance and murder mystery, set in Lagos, by Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzo. The book won the Betty Trask Award (2013), was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. Onuzo began this book when she was 17 years old and it was published when she was only 21.
The story was engrossing for at least the first two thirds but gets a bit wobbly towards the end. It begins with the unlikely romance between Abike Johnson, daughter of a wealthy mafia-style businessman, and a street hawker known as Runner G. The story begins with ice-cream and dates and shows vividly the contrast between extremes of poverty and wealth in Nigeria. The focus then shifts onto a murder and revenge, and becomes much more taken up with scheming, corruption and sinister politics.
This was an enjoyable worthwhile read but the ending was clunky, abrupt and somewhat unsatisfying. Abike seemed to have some character development during the story, at least she seemed to take some baby steps away from her spoiled princess image, but seemed to regress again at the end. Runner G began as a likeable and honourable character but seems to make some very bad choices and move in a disappointing direction. I would be interested in reading another of her books. The audionarration by Clifford Samuel and Nneka Okoye was excellent with smooth transitions between the two characters’ points of view.… (mehr)