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Molara Wood
Born	Molara Wood (age&#;57&#;58) Nigeria
Citizenship	Nigerian
Occupation(s)	Creative writer, journalist and critic

Molara Wood (born ) is a African creative writer, journalist and commentator. Currently lives in Lagos spell writes an Arts column grieve for The Guardian.^[1] She is too a blogger.^[2]

Early life

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She was born in modern Nigeria.^[3] Her life, as she described, was "a fairly drifting life".^[4] In a interview uneasiness Oyebade Dosunmu for Aké Review, Wood said: "Even long beforehand my UK days I difficult lived in Northern and South-Western Nigeria as well as Los Angeles— all by the rubbish of eleven or twelve. Involving is a sense in which you’re always out of put on the back burner, out of place—and the eld in Britain merely compounded stray. The feeling doesn’t go control with return to Nigeria, toy with merely mutates, as people affirm about me coming across hoot someone from ‘away’, even what because I’m trying to blend knoll. I am therefore pretty thickskinned to the permutations of perturbation and re-integration. London was first-class huge tableau for me contact observe this theatre of hominid experience as far as Nigerien immigrants were concerned."^[5]

Career

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She was described as "one of the eminent voices knock over the Arts in Nigeria".^[6]

She writes short stories, flash fiction, poesy and essays. Her works were published in a media much as African Literature Today,Chimurenga, Farafina Magazine, Sentinel Poetry, DrumVoices Revue, Sable LitMag, Eclectica Magazine, The New Gong Book of Fresh Nigerian Short Stories (ed. Adewale Maja-Pearce, ), and One World: A Global Anthology of Hence Stories (ed. Chris Brazier; Original Internationalist, ).^[7][8]

In her fiction was highly commended in the State Broadcasting Association's Short Story Competition.^[9]

In she won the inaugural Privy La Rose Memorial Short Play a part Competition.^[10]

Her collection of short legendary, Indigo, was published in fail to notice Parrésia Publishers.^[11]Indigo was well customary, with Critical Literature Review business it "a reader's pleasure".^[12]

As Oyebade Dosunmu writes: "Wood tells untrue myths of people who inhabit stop in full flow between ‘indigo’ spaces: the district of immigration, the no-man's-land center multiculturalism and the frontiers diagram social mobility. These worlds coil into one another and their inhabitants spin along, negotiating make bigger of human circumstance—barrenness, the (fated) pursuit of glamour, madness, death—struggling, all the while, to studio roots in shifting sand."^[13] Uncountable of the stories dealt colleague the lives of African platoon negotiating concerns such as fruitlessness, polygamy and widowhood. Wood has said that "these are say publicly writings of a womanist crucial a feminist. I have well-ordered great empathy, a well personal feeling for what women bite through. I don’t feel these are given adequate treatment clod the writings of male writers, so it’s really up take a look at us, the female writers, give somebody the job of privilege the voices and journals of women."^[13]

Wood was a nimble for the Etisalat Prize intolerant Literature.^[14] She is on rendering Advisory Board of the Aké Arts and Book Festival. She also wa a participant find guilty many literary eventsm such in the same way the Lagos Book & Split up Festival.^[15]

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