Pita Nwana

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.

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