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11 November 2012. www.cerep.ulg.ac.be. Unigwe. www.flandersliterature.be.
Unigwe sits on the Board of Trustees of pan-African literary initiative Writivism,[23] and set up the Awele Creative Trust in Nigeria to support young writers.[24] In April 2014, she was selected for the Festival's Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in Africa.[25]
In autumn 2014, the University of Tübingen welcomed Unigwe and her fellow authors Taiye Selasi, Priya Basil and Nii Ayikwei Parkes to the year's Writers' Lectureship, all of them authors representing what Selasi calls Afropolitan literature.
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Career
Unigwe, who was inspired by the works of Chinua Achebe, Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta, first made her mark as a novelist in September 2005 with De Feniks (The Phoenix), which was published in Dutch by Meulenhoff/Manteau (of Amsterdam and Antwerp).
7 July 2016 . uni-tuebingen.de.
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