Sade Adeniran

Sade Adeniran is a Nigerian novelist whose debut novel, Imagine This, won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Africa. Imagine This was originally self-published by the author. Based in London, she is also a filmmaker. Adeniran earned degrees in Media and English from Plymouth University and also studied in the US as an exchange student at the University of Massachusetts. She began her writing career with a radio play written for a final-year university project and entitled Memories of a Distant Past; she submitted "on a whim" to the BBC, and it was produced in BBC Radio 4's "First Bite" Festival. She subsequently wrote other theatre pieces, having her work performed in London at the Lyric Theatre, the Bush Theatre and the Riverside Studios.