Noo Saro-Wiwa
Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British/Nigerian writer and journalist.
Saro-Wiwa is the author of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria.[1]
Nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award,[2] Looking for Transwonderland was named The Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year in 2012. It was selected as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week in 2012, and was nominated by The Financial Times as one of the best travel books of 2012. The Guardian newspaper also included it among its 10 Best Contemporary Books on Africa in 2012. It has been translated into French and Italian.
Saro-Wiwa attended King's College London and Columbia University in New York. She has contributed book reviews, travel, opinion and analysis articles for The Guardian newspaper, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement and Prospect magazine.
She is the daughter of the Nigerian poet and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Official website: http://www.noosarowiwa.com
References
- ^ Noo Saro-Wiwa (5 January 2012). Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria. Granta Publications. ISBN 978-1-84708-552-8.
- ^ "2013 winner". authorsclub.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014.
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External links
- Official website: http://noosarowiwa.com/
- Noo Saro-Wiwa on Twitter
- Noo Saro-Wiwa at The Guardian
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