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(CNN) -- A 19-year-old Nigerian undergraduate student has signed a two-novel deal with the British publisher Faber, making her its youngest ever woman author.

Chibundu Onuzo, a history student at King's College London, will have her first novel, "The Spider King's Daughter," published next year.

"I wrote the book in my last year at school," Onuzo told CNN. "I've been writing since I was 10, but this was the first novel I finished, so it was very liberating to be able to write 'The End.'"

Onuzo, who moved to England to go to school five years ago, found an agent before she had even finished writing, and sealed the book deal on her first meeting with a publisher

Her editor at Faber, Sarah Savitt, describes Onuzo as a "very talented writer at the beginning of an exciting writing career."

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/09/21/nigerian.authors/index.html?hpt=C2


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A 19-year-old Nigerian undergraduate student has signed a two-novel deal with the British publisher Faber, making her its youngest ever woman author.

where are the Yorubas and Hausas?

anyway the corrupt nigeria is making names every where. after oyibo go say we no get anything to offer

does everything have to be about tribe and ethnicity?

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Chibundu Onuzo

But seriously, must it bring about an ethnic anything. She z a Nigerian girl, dat's al dere z to it

Don't mind these tribalists. Nigeria's first literary Nobel laureat is Yoruba (Wole Soyinka), so what is the noise about ethnicity. I'm glad for her as a Nigerian, even tho' she's been away for 5 yrs.

the girl got her break through a literary agent, the question is WHERE ARE THE LITERARY AGENTS IN NIGERIA