World Books Podcast: Sefi Atta

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In Africa, Nigerian writer Sefi Atta’s reputation is stellar. Her novel Everything Good Will Come won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. And her recently published collection of short stories. News From Home, garnered the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing. (Her latest novel, Swallow, will be available in September from Interlink Books.) Atta’s radio plays for the BBC have secured her a healthy European following. But she has yet to garner the critical attention she deserves in America, though she has lived in Mississippi for over a decade. World Books editor Bill Marx spoke to Atta about what roles religion and feminism play in her fiction and why her complex vision of Africa defies popular expectations. Download MP3

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