Nigerian-born Chika Unigwe is one of the most prominent voices in present-day English literature to have explored in her fiction the topics of contemporary sex trafficking and prostitution. She is the author of four novels, the best-known being her second,
On Black Sisters’ Street(2009), winner of the prestigious Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2012, but she has also published poetry, essays, children’s books and more than thirty short stories, many of them scattered in journals and edited books and others compiled in her short story collection
Better Never than Late(2019). From 1995 to 2013 Unigwe lived in Belgium, where she settled after marrying a Belgian engineer; she was for years a relevant figure in Belgian letters as she engaged in public debates about the invisibility of…
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Citation: Bastida-Rodriguez, Patricia. "Chika Unigwe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 October 2021; last revised 08 December 2023. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14709, accessed 04 December 2024.]
