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Noo Saro Wiwa (Shorter Version)
Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British/Nigerian writer and journalist.
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- Noo Saro Wiwa Shorter Version
- Festivaletteratura 2015 intervista a noo saro wiwa
- Education
- Writing
- Personal life
- References
Festivaletteratura 2015 intervista a noo saro wiwa
Education
Saro-Wiwa attended Roedean School, King's College London and Columbia University, New York.
Writing
Saro-Wiwa is the author of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (2012). This book was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, and was named the Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year in 2012. It was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in 2012, and was nominated by the Financial Times as one of the best travel books of 2012. The Guardian newspaper also included it among its 10 Best Contemporary Books on Africa in 2012. It has been translated into French and Italian. In 2016 it won the Albatros Travel Literature Prize in Italy.
She was awarded the Miles Morland scholarship for non-fiction writing in 2015.
In 2016, she contributed to the anthology An Unreliable Guide to London (Influx Press), as well as a A Country of Refuge (Unbound), an anthology of writing on asylum seekers. Another of her stories also featured in La Felicità Degli Uomini Semplici (66th and 2nd), an Italian-language anthology based around football.
She has contributed book reviews, travel, analysis and opinion articles for The Guardian newspaper, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement and Prospect magazine.
Personal life
Saro-Wiwa is the daughter of the Nigerian poet and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.