![]() First edition (Dutch) | |
Author | Chika Unigwe |
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Original title | Fata Morgana |
Language | English |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Publisher | Meulenhoff / Manteau |
Publication date | April 26, 2011 |
Publication place | Nigeria |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 272 |
ISBN | 978-1-4000-6833-3 |
Preceded by | The Phoenix |
Followed by | The Night Dancer |
On Black Sisters Street is a 2011 translated novel by Nigerian author Chika Unigwe. [1] [2] [3] It is her second novel, which was originally published as Fata Morgana, in Dutch in 2008 and subsequently released in English as On Black Sisters' Street. [4] On Black Sisters' Street is about African prostitutes living and working in Belgium. On Black Sisters' Street won the 2012 Nigeria Prize for Literature; [5] valued at $100,000 it is Africa's largest literary prize. [6] [7]
The story is set on Zwartezusterstraat which is the "Black Sisters' Street" in Belgium. Here four migrant sex-workers try to make enough money to pay back the Nigerian pimp named Dele for the fee he claims for transporting them from Nigeria to Belgium. [8]
![]() First edition (Dutch) | |
Author | Chika Unigwe |
---|---|
Original title | Fata Morgana |
Language | English |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Publisher | Meulenhoff / Manteau |
Publication date | April 26, 2011 |
Publication place | Nigeria |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 272 |
ISBN | 978-1-4000-6833-3 |
Preceded by | The Phoenix |
Followed by | The Night Dancer |
On Black Sisters Street is a 2011 translated novel by Nigerian author Chika Unigwe. [1] [2] [3] It is her second novel, which was originally published as Fata Morgana, in Dutch in 2008 and subsequently released in English as On Black Sisters' Street. [4] On Black Sisters' Street is about African prostitutes living and working in Belgium. On Black Sisters' Street won the 2012 Nigeria Prize for Literature; [5] valued at $100,000 it is Africa's largest literary prize. [6] [7]
The story is set on Zwartezusterstraat which is the "Black Sisters' Street" in Belgium. Here four migrant sex-workers try to make enough money to pay back the Nigerian pimp named Dele for the fee he claims for transporting them from Nigeria to Belgium. [8]