Pemi Aguda

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Pemi Aguda
Born
Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
CitizenshipNigerian
EducationUniversity of Michigan MFA
Known forWriting
AwardsWritivism 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]

  1. ^ "Pemi Aguda Wins 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award". 18 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Pemi Aguda wins UK's Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award 2020". 12 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Home". deborahrogersfoundation.org.
  4. ^ Miscellaneous (2015-07-15). "Interview - Pemi Aguda - Winner of the 2015 Writivism Short Story Competition". Brittle Paper. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  5. ^ "Pemi Aguda is first Writivism Stellenbosch University writing residency recipient". James Murua's Literature Blog. 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  6. ^ Umesi, Afoma (2017-07-21). "Nigerian writer, 'Pemi Aguda, on the life-changing effect of books". Afoma Umesi. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  7. ^ Zadok, Rachel (2015-07-15). "'...write, despite the convenient excuse of 'life'.' An Interview with Pemi Aguda". Short Story Day Africa. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  8. ^ Ryman, About Geoff (2018-04-27). "'Pemi Aguda". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  9. ^ Emelife, Jennifer (2015-07-12). "WRITIVISM2015: Pemi Aguda Speaks". Praxis Magazine for Arts & Literature. Retrieved 2019-10-06.

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