P.P. Atte

P.P. Atte was born in Lagos, Nigeria, the year before “Woodstock”. At the time of her birth, her father was an army officer, and her mother was a small business owner. She spent many years in boarding schools from the age of four for her primary and later secondary education in the city of her birth and the largest city in her country where she made up characters and stories in her head to keep homesickness at bay. She graduated secondary school where she got her O Level GCEs in 1982. She gained admission to the University of Benin, Benin City to study law in 1983 after completing her Lower Sixth Form. She earned her bachelor of laws degree in 1987, attended the Nigerian Law School afterward and was admitted to the Bar in 1989 as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She practised law in Lagos from 1990 to 1996, which included running her own law firm from the age of twenty-four.

In August 1996, Atte moved to Germany to pursue postgraduate studies. She completed her masters, got married and had children in that order in the eleven years she spent in Germany while also working as a corporate counsel and lecturing at her German alma mater. She immigrated with her family to Canada in the summer of 2007 and settled in the western city of Calgary, known for the annual summer Stampede. Over the years, Atte has worked on various manuscripts and in September 2022, after becoming an empty- nester for a couple of years and still working full-time as a lawyer, she wrote and finished her first book- a memoir of her mother’s life in two months- The Story of Mother: Of Whom We Come And Whence We Came. She published it independently in December 2022 and she is currently working on her first novel, Cursed Amongst Men, planning for it to be released in 2023.

She lives in Western Canada.