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INTERVIEW SEFI ATTA: Nigeria’s Writing Export To The World Words by Ifueko Diagbare Atta is the author of novels Everything Good Will Come, Swallow, A Bit of Difference and The Bead Collector; a short-story collection, News From Home; a children’s book, Drama Queen; and Sefi Atta: Selected Plays. She recently co-wrote a forthcoming Netflix original movie adaptation of her novel, Swallow, with Kunle Afolayan. In this exclusive interview with the <strong>Glamsquad</strong>, she shares her experience of working with Afolayan and talks about her next play, Ikoyi Girl, and her latest novel, The Bad Immigrant, which will be published in <strong>2021</strong>. She lives in the USA with her husband and daughter. First, I want to thank you for granting this interview. It is indeed a privilege. You started out as an accountant and qualified as a chartered accountant and CPA. How did you transition from numbers to letters, and when did you realise you had a flair for writing? Thank you for interviewing me. I am honoured. I transitioned by learning my craft – for example, I studied for a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. I wrote oneact plays at first, but I couldn’t get them produced in Lagos. This was during Abacha’s regime, when not much was happening on the theatre scene. I was living in Mississippi at the time, so I entered radio plays for the BBC’s African Performance competition. Two of them won prizes and they were broadcast internationally. It was wonderful to reach such a wide audience early in my career. After that, I published my debut novel Everything Good Will Come, which was followed by a second novel, Swallow, and a collection of short stories titled News From Home. I returned to stage plays when theatre finally picked up again in Lagos. I honestly can’t describe this as having a flair. What I have is a keen interest in telling stories in different forms. www.glamsquadmagazine.com 9
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