Ītta's Lagos-based production company Atta Girl supports Care to Read, a program she initiated to earn funds for legitimate charities through staged readings. Her first novel, Everything Good Will Come, won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Her books have been translated into several languages. Her articles on Lagos and Nigeria have appeared in publications such as Time and Libération. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals such as The Los Angeles Review, Mississippi Review and World Literature Today. Career Ītta graduated from the creative writing program at Antioch University in Los Angeles. She is married to Gboyega Ransome-Kuti, a medical doctor, and son of Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, and they have one daughter, Temi.

She earned an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2001. She qualified as a chartered accountant in England and as CPA in the United States, where she migrated in 1994. She attended Queen's College, Lagos, and Millfield School in England. Her father Abdul-Aziz Atta was the Secretary to Federal Government and Head of the Civil Service until his death in 1972, and she was raised by her mother Iyabo Atta. Biography Ītta was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in January 1964, to a family of five children. Her books have been translated into many languages, radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC, and her stage plays have been performed internationally.Īwards she has received include the 2006 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and the 2009 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. Sefi Atta (born January 1964) is a Nigerian-American novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter.

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