S. A. Afolabi
Segun Afolabi is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer was born in Kaduna, Nigeria, in 1966.
Biography
Segun Afolabi is the son of a career diplomat. He won the 2005 Caine Prize for the story "Monday Morning", first published in Wasafiri, issue 41, spring 2004. His first novel "Goodbye Lucille" was published in 2007. His first story collection is entitled A Life Elsewhere and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and longlisted for the 2006 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His first novel, Goodbye Lucille, was published in April 2007[1] and won the Authors' Club First Novel Award.
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