Pemi Aguda
Pemi Aguda | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nigeria |
| Citizenship | Nigerian |
| Education | University of Michigan MFA |
| Known for | Writing |
| Awards | Writivism Short Story Prize |
Pemi Aguda is a Nigerian writer, architect, and podcast host. She won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Award.[1][2][3]
Early life and career[edit]
Pemi Aguda was born in Nigeria and lives in Lagos, where she works as an architect. Aguda won the 2015 Writivism Short Story Prize and was the first recipient of the first Writivism Stellenbosch University writing residency.[4][5] Her stories are published in Omenana Magazine, Saraba, The Kalahari Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, The Wrong Quarterly and in Prufrock Magazine. Her work also appears in short story anthologies. In 2019 Aguda became a scholarship recipient of the Juniper institute and the 2019 Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship.[6][7][8][9]
Bibliography[edit]
Novels
- Masquerade Season
Short stories
- Things Boys Do
Anthologies
- These Words Expose Us
- Lagos Noir
References[edit]
- ^ "Pemi Aguda Wins 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award". 18 May 2020.
- ^ Murua, James (12 May 2020). "Pemi Aguda wins UK's Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award 2020". Writing Africa.
- ^ "Home". deborahrogersfoundation.org.
- ^ Miscellaneous (15 July 2015). "Interview - Pemi Aguda - Winner of the 2015 Writivism Short Story Competition". Brittle Paper. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Murua, James (31 March 2016). "Pemi Aguda is first Writivism Stellenbosch University writing residency recipient". Writing Africa. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ Umesi, Afoma (21 July 2017). "Nigerian writer, 'Pemi Aguda, on the life-changing effect of books". Afoma Umesi. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Zadok, Rachel (15 July 2015). "'...write, despite the convenient excuse of 'life'.' An Interview with Pemi Aguda". Short Story Day Africa. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Ryman, About Geoff (27 April 2018). "'Pemi Aguda". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Emelife, Jennifer (12 July 2015). "WRITIVISM2015: Pemi Aguda Speaks". Praxis Magazine for Arts & Literature. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
External links[edit]
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