{"id":1032,"date":"2024-05-21T22:46:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=1032"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:28:08","slug":"noo-saro-wiwa","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/noo-saro-wiwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Noo Saro-Wiwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Noo Saro-Wiwa was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England. She attended King\u2019s College London and Columbia University in New York and is an author and journalist. Her first book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, was published in 2012. In the same year, it was named Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year, nominated by the Financial Times as one of the best travel books and included as one of the 10 Best Contemporary Books on Africa by the Guardian. It was shortlisted for the Authors\u2019 Club Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in 2013 and won the Albatros Travel Literature Prize in 2016. Noo has contributed regularly to several newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and Chatham House.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\" data-sheets-textstyleruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:0,&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;5&quot;:1}}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:13}\"><em>Noo Saro-Wiwa<\/em> was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England. She attended King\u2019s College London and Columbia University in New York and is an author and journalist. Her first book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, was published in 2012. In the same year, it was named Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year, nominated by the Financial Times as one of the best travel books and included as one of the 10 Best Contemporary Books on Africa by the Guardian. It was shortlisted for the Authors\u2019 Club Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in 2013 and won the Albatros Travel Literature Prize in 2016. 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