Pemi Aguda

Pemi Aguda is a Nigerian writer, architect, and podcast host. She won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Award. Quotes To keep reading. And write, despite the convenient excuse of 'life'. Her opinion in an interview There’s no formula to a beautiful story. But you’ll feel it. Honesty. Her opinion in an interview "I like heading into the unknown, going on scary rides–literally and metaphorically. I want to do new and daunting things, with my writing, with my life." "might be interesting to have George Eliot’s Middlemarch rendered in a Nigerian context. It is such a socially intelligent book and I love the questions it asks of self-righteousness and class and religion and marriage and perspective." "When I can write, I do it because in these fictional worlds, I have some semblance of power. And sitting at my desk is something I can discipline, opposite to how control seems to be slipping further away from me in reality." "When I was younger, the first draft sometimes happened in one seating. That hardly ever happens now." External links Category:Women authors from Nigeria Category:Living people