Nwosu Pita Nwana (1881 — 1968) was a Nigerian novelist and carpenter.
[2][3][4] Nwana's Omenuko is regarded as the bedrock for fiction in Igbo literature.
[5] He worked as a carpenter at Methodist College Uzuakoli and later as an interpreter for Rev.
[5] In 1933, he wrote Omenuko which won a prize in a competition run by the International African Institute,[6] and was later published by Longman in 1935.
[7] This article about a Nigerian writer or poet is a stub.