Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in January 1964, to a family of five children. Her father Abdul-Aziz Atta was the Secretary to Federal Government and Head of the Civil Service until his death in 1972, and she was raised by her mother Iyabo Atta.[4]
Atta's Lagos-based production company Atta Girl supports Care to Read, a programme she initiated to earn funds for legitimate charities through staged readings.[10]
A critical study of her works, Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition, edited by Professor Walter P. Collins, III, was published by Cambria Press in 2015.
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^Sefi Atta – Short bio – Q&A (panellist) – Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 27 August 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
^Atta, Sefi. "One or the Other: An Essay by Sefi Atta". AfricanWriter.com. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^"Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition By Walter Collins". www.cambriapress.com. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
^"The Prize | 2006 Winner". The Lumina Foundation. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^Gabi-Williams, Olatoun (21 April 2019). "After seminal anthology, Busby celebrates New Daughters of Africa". The Guardian. Nigeria.
^"Sefi Atta makes children's literature debut". The Sun Nigeria. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
^Fatunla, Dele Meiji (30 June 2014). "50 Books By African Women That Everyone Should Read". Whats On Africa. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Previous Judges". The Caine Prize for African Writing. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Atta, Sefi - Peter Hammer Verlag". www.peter-hammer-verlag.de. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition By Walter Collins". www.cambriapress.com. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Sefi Atta makes children's literature debut". The Sun Nigeria. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Top African BBC plays revealed". 23 February 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Sefi Atta". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^Augoye, Jayne (22 May 2019). "Two Nigerians shortlisted for 2019 Caine Prize - Premium Times Nigeria". Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Authors". AfricanWriter.com. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^"Sefi Atta, Author Info, Published Books, Bio, Photo, Video, and More". AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^Jury & candidates for 2010 Neustadt Prize, announced March 2009. Archived 24 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
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External linksedit
Sefi Atta's website
Ike Anya, "Sefi Atta: Something Good Comes to Nigerian literature", African Writer Magazine.