Chika Unigwe
- January 10, 2024
- Author
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Chika Unigwe |
| Occupation | Author |
| Date Of Birth | Jun 12, 1974(1974-06-12) |
| Age | 50 |
| Birthplace | Enugu |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Birth City | Enugu State |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
Chika Unigwe Biography
| Name | Chika Unigwe |
| Birthday | Jun 12 |
| Birth Year | 1974 |
| Place Of Birth | Enugu |
| Home Town | Enugu State |
| Birth Country | Nigeria |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Chika Unigwe is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on June 12, 1974 in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.
Chika Nina Unigwe (born 12 June 1974) is a Nigerian-born Igbo author who writes in English and Dutch. In April 2014 she was selected for the Hay Festival’s Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Previously based in Belgium, she now lives in the United States.
She won the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition and a Commonwealth Short Story Competition award. In 2004, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. In the same year, her short story made the top 10 of the Million Writers Award for best online fiction. In 2005, she won third prize in the Equiano Fiction Contest.
Chika Unigwe Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Author |
| House | Living in own house. |
Chika Unigwe is one of the richest Author from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chika Unigwe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Chika Unigwe was born in 1974 in Enugu, Nigeria. She is the sixth of seven children. She attended Secondary school at Federal Government Girls’ college in Abuja and obtained a BA in English in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in
- In 1996, Chika earned an MA in English from the KU Leuven (KUL, the Catholic University of Leuven). She has a Ph.D in Literature (2004) from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Her debut novel, De Feniks, was published in 2005 by Meulenhoff and Manteau (of Amsterdam and Antwerp, respectively) and was shortlisted for the Vrouw en Kultuur debuutprijs for the best first novel by a female writer. She is also the author of two children’s books published by Macmillan, London.
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Unigwe sits on the Board of Trustees of pan-African literary initiative Writivism, and set up the Awele Creative Trust in Nigeria to support young writers. In April 2014, she was selected for the Festival’s Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in Africa.
Facts & Trivia
Christian Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Chika Unigwe celebrates birthday on June 12 of every year.
In 2016, Unigwe was appointed as the Bonderman Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University in Rhode Island.