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Lesley Nneka Arimah

(1983) Writer

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Lesley Nneka Arimah is a writer.

Quick Facts About Lesley Nneka Arimah

Born: October 13, 1983
Profession: Writer

About Lesley Nneka Arimah

[Wikidata] Nigerian-American writer (born 1983)... | [Wikipedia] Lesley Nneka Arimah is a Nigerian writer. She has been described as "a skillful storyteller who can render entire relationships with just a few lines of dialogue" and "a new voice with certain staying power". She is the winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry

Quotes by Lesley Nneka Arimah

“And he should chastise the girl, he knows that, but she is his brightest ember and he would not have her dimmed.”

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“She sounded just like my mother, and I knew that if I didn’t interrupt, the lecture would escalate until I wanted to…

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Parenting

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“What would happen if you couldn’t forget, if every emotion from every person whose grief you’d eaten came back up? It could…

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Grief

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“There is this thing that distance does where it subtracts warm and context and history and each finds that they are arguing…

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“You shouldn’t be stopping a person from feeling natural hardships. That’s what it means to be human.”

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Nature

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