diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/unicodedata2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/unicodedata2/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e36f0f7b03cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/unicodedata2/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, pytest }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "unicodedata2";
+  version = "13.0.0-2";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "mikekap";
+    repo   = pname;
+    rev    = version;
+    sha256 = "0p9brbiwyg98q52y0gfyps52xv57fwqfpq0mn18p1xc1imip3h2b";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest ];
+  checkPhase = "pytest tests";
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "";
+    homepage = "http://github.com/mikekap/unicodedata2";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.sternenseemann ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 037b00d495a5..d131ef8ab1b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -6825,6 +6825,8 @@ in {
 
   unicodecsv = callPackage ../development/python-modules/unicodecsv { };
 
+  unicodedata2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/unicodedata2 { };
+
   unicode-slugify = callPackage ../development/python-modules/unicode-slugify { };
 
   unidiff = callPackage ../development/python-modules/unidiff { };