Sefi Atta
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- Born
- 1964
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Bit of Difference
- Le meilleur reste à venir
- Indigene
- Good for Nothing Girl
- De tuin van gebroken geluk
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,767x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,100x
- Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,344x
- Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,329x
- Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2022 · cited 1,809x
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Quotes
- “I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.”
- “People don’t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it’s too much.”
- “You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.”
- “I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.”
- “She drinks her Eva water. Their parents were taken down by cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Respectable diseases.”
- “Most of the children were shoeless and you were confronted with the dilemma that, no matter how much money you had and no matter where you could escape to overseas, you could not save yourself from your own country.”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- sefiatta.com
- Image
- Sefi Atta 2021.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1964-01-19
- name in native language
- Sefi Atta
- birth name
- Sefi Atta
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
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- Sefi Atta
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- Italiano
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1964 births21st-century Nigerian novelists21st-century Nigerian women writersAlumni of the University of BirminghamAntioch University alumniEnglish-language Nigerian writersLiving peopleNigerian dramatists and playwrightsNigerian expatriate academics in the United StatesNigerian screenwritersNigerian women academicsNigerian women novelistsNorthwestern University facultyPeople educated at MillfieldQueen's College, Lagos alumniRansome-Kuti familyUniversity of Southern Mississippi peopleWriters from Lagos