AUTHOR BIO- OTHER WORKS- EVENTS

Chigozie Obioma's is the author of The Fishermen, which was a finalist for the Man Booker prize 2015, and a winner of four other awards, including an NAACP Image award, the FT/Oppenheimer prize for fiction, and several nominations. The novel, which is being translated in 26 languages, is also being adapted into a stage play. Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Influential People of 2015. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and in Nigeria where where he runs various projects. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities will be published in 2018.

                                          OTHER WORKS:
*       Midnight Sun (Short story, 2016)-NewStatesman
*       Èkó ò ní bàjé :   The growth of Lagos City --The Guardian
*       Ghosts of My Student Years in Northern Cyprus-The Guardian
*       Teethmarks: The Translator's Dilenma--Poets and Writers, January/February 2016
*       Audacity of Prose (Essay, 2015)-The Millions
*      The Road To the Country (Poetry, 2015)-Virginia Quarterly Review
*       The Great Convert (Short story, 2014)-Transition Magazine Issue 114
*        Fishermen (Short story, 2011)-Virginia Quarterly Review
                       
                                                 EVENTS
*June 2, 2017: Reading at the Nigerian Association of Milwaukee Center
*June 3, 2017: Go On Girl! Bookclub Author Awards Booksigning, Chicago
*July 10-15: VQR Writers' Conference
*August 22: Writer-in-Residence public talk and reading, Aspen Institute, Colorado
*September 3-10: World Literature Festival, Zagreb, Croatia

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