Pita Nwana

Nwosu Pita Nwana (1881 — 1968) was a Nigerian novelist and carpenter. He is chiefly known as the writer of the first Igbo novel Omenuko. Nwana's Omenuko is regarded as the bedrock for fiction in Igbo literature.

Life and career
Nwana was born in 1881. He was the youngest child in a family of seven. He worked as a carpenter at Methodist College Uzuakoli and later as an interpreter for Rev. J. Wood at then Ibo Institute. In 1933, he wrote Omenuko which won a prize in a competition run by the International African Institute, and was later published by Longman in 1935.