Adaobi Nwaubani wins Betty Trask award

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani has won a Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35. The author won for her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance.

The win was announced at the Society of Authors annual Awards Party, which took place in Piccadilly, London, this evening. Nwaubani, who was unable to attend the event, was represented by her friends, Eze and Andrea Onah.

Nwaubani's winning book is set amidst the perilous world of Nigerian advance fee fraud, popularly known as ‘419'. It also won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa), was a finalist for the 2010 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, a semi-finalist for the VCU Cabell First Book prize, and was named as one of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2009.

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