Jos Festival of Theatre 2019: The Death Road, The Jos Festival of Theatre Radio plays 2002: The Engagement, BBC Radio 2004: Makinwa's Miracle, BBC Radio 2007: A Free Day, BBC Radio Screenplays 2021: Swallow, a Netflix original movie based on Sefi Atta's second novel, Swallow, co-written by Atta and Kunle Afolayan, premiered on October 1. Awards and recognitions 2002: Macmillan Writers Prize For Africa, shortlist 2002: BBC African Performance, 2nd Prize 2002: Zoetrope Short Fiction Contest, 3rd Prize 2003: Red Hen Press Short Story Award, 1st prize 2003: Glimmer Train′s Very Short Fiction Award, finalist 2004: BBC African Performance, 2nd Prize 2005: PEN International David TK Wong Prize, 1st Prize 2006: Caine Prize for African Writing, shortlist 2006: Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa 2009: Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 2009: The American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, quarter-finalist 2019: WeScreenPlay Diverse Voices Lab, finalist 2019: The American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, finalist 2021: The National Playwrights Conference, semifinalist Visiting Writer 2006: University of Southern Mississippi 2008: Northwestern University 2010: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Atta was on the jury for the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and a judge for the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing. A critical study of her works, Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition, edited by Professor Walter P. Collins, III, was published by Cambria Press in 2015. References External links Sefi Atta's website Nigerian women novelists Nigerian dramatists and playwrights Nigerian expatriate academics in the United States People educated at Millfield 1964 births Living people Writers from Lagos Alumni of the University of Birmingham Antioch University alumni University of Southern Mississippi people Northwestern University faculty Yoruba women writers Queen's College, Lagos alumni 21st-century Nigerian novelists English-language writers from Nigeria Ransome-Kuti family Yoruba women academics Nigerian women academics 21st-century Nigerian women writers Nigerian screenwriters Nigerian writers