Chibundu Onuzo

Imachibundu Oluwadara Onuzo FRSL (born 1991 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist whose debut novel, The Spider King's Daughter (2012), won the Betty Trask Award (2013) and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and Commonwealth Book Prize. Her notable subsequent works include Welcome to Lagos (2016) and Sankofa (2021); she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018 as part of its "40 Under 40" initiative.