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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2004
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafra...



  • Winner of the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa From Zamfara up north to the Niger delta down south, with a finale in Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella respond to and amplify the newspaper headlines in a range of Nigerian voices....



  • In the 1980s in Lagos, the government’s War Against Indiscipline and austerity measures are in full swing. A succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani, a bank secretary, to be persuaded by her roommate Rose to consider drug trafficking as a way...



  • At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity, and when her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her fatherâ...



  • A new novel from Wole Soyinka prize-winning author of Everything Good Will Come. Lagos, January 1976, six years after the Nigerian Civil War. A new military regime has been in power for six months, but rumors are spreading that a countercoup is immin...



  • An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity from the Wole Soyinka prize-winning author of Everything Good Will ComeWriting at the height of her powers, The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta’s place as one ...



  • A young woman's quest for a better education results in a case of modern-day slavery, written by the award-winning author of Swallow and Everything Good Will Come.What’s in a name?...When Gift escapes the limited options of her small city in Ni...



  • Four women grapple with social circumstances out of their control in this novella and short stories collection written by an award-winning Nigerian author.Perceptive and satirical, Indigene highlights revealing moments in the everyday lives of four i...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sefi Atta has published 8 books.

The next book by Sefi Atta, Indigene, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, was published in October 2004.

No. Sefi Atta does not write books in series.