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Molara Wood was born on 1967 in Nigeria, is a Nigerian writer, journalist and critic (born 1967). Discover Molara Wood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Occupation Creative writer, journalist and critic
Age 57 years old
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Born 1967
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Birthplace Nigeria
Nationality Nigeria

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1967

Molara Wood (born 1967) is a Nigerian creative writer, journalist and critic.

She has been described as "one of the eminent voices in the Arts in Nigeria".

Her short stories, flash fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications.

2007

These include African Literature Today, Chimurenga, Farafina Magazine, Sentinel Poetry, DrumVoices Revue, Sable LitMag, Eclectica Magazine, The New Gong Book of New Nigerian Short Stories (ed. Adewale Maja-Pearce, 2007), and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories (ed. Chris Brazier; New Internationalist, 2009).

She currently lives in Lagos.

Born in Nigeria, Molara Wood has lived what she describes as "a fairly peripatetic life", encompassing two decades in Britain, where she had initially gone to study ("Three or four years max, was the plan. But life happens. You don’t see the years rolling into each other, then you wake up one day, and you’ve been in England for 20 years").

In 2007, her fiction was highly commended in the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's Short Story Competition,.

2008

In 2008 she won the inaugural John La Rose Memorial Short Story Competition.

2011

Since returning to Nigeria, she has been Arts and Culture Editor of Next newspaper (which ceased publication in 2011), and currently writes an Arts column for The Guardian in Lagos, where she is now based.

During her time at Next, she was the editor for Teju Cole´s Letters to a young Writer series.

She is also a blogger.

2013

Her collection of short stories, Indigo, was published in 2013 by Parrésia Publishers.

Indigo was well received, with Critical Literature Review calling it "a reader's pleasure".

As Oyebade Dosunmu writes: "Wood tells stories of people who inhabit in between ‘indigo’ spaces: the borderland of immigration, the no-man's-land of multiculturalism and the frontiers of social mobility. These worlds spiral into one another and their inhabitants spin along, negotiating extremes of human circumstance—barrenness, the (fated) pursuit of glamour, madness, death—struggling, all the while, to plant roots in shifting sand."

Many of the stories dealt with the lives of African women negotiating concerns such as barrenness, polygamy and widowhood.

Wood has said that "these are the writings of a womanist and a feminist. I have a great empathy, a well of feeling for what women go through. I don’t feel these are given adequate treatment in the writings of male writers, so it's really up to us, the female writers, to privilege the voices and experiences of women."

2015

In a 2015 interview with Oyebade Dosunmu for Aké Review, Wood elaborated: "Even long before my UK days, I had lived in Northern and South-Western Nigeria as well as Los Angeles—all by the age of eleven or twelve. There is a sense in which you're always out of time, out of place—and the years in Britain merely compounded that. The feeling doesn’t go away with return to Nigeria, it merely mutates, as people remark about me coming across as someone from ‘away’, even when I’m trying to blend in. I am therefore pretty sensitive to the permutations of dislocation and re-integration. London was a huge tableau for me to observe this theatre of human experience as far as Nigerian immigrants were concerned."

Wood was a judge for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature.

She is on the Advisory Board of the Aké Arts and Book Festival and has been a participant in many literary events, including the Lagos Book & Art Festival.

In 2022, she was appointed a writer-in-residence by the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD), based in Accra, Ghana.