Chibundu Onuzo

machibundu Oluwadara Onuzo FRSL is a Nigerian novelist. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. She was the youngest female writer ever taken on by the publisher. Onuzo received a first-class bachelor's degree in history from King's College London (2012), In April 2014 Onuzo was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. In June 2018 Onuzo was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. At the 2020 American Black Film Festival, the HBO Short Film Competition was won by Dolapo Is Fine, for which Onuzo co-wrote the screenplay and which was based on her short story "Sunita" She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.