AUTHOR BIO
Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into more than 28 languages. They have won awards including the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Award and the LA Times Book Prize, and been nominated for many others. The Fishermen was adapted into an award-winning stage play by Gbolahan Obisesan that played in the UK and South Africa between 2018-2019. He was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015. He is an associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and divides his time between the US and Nigeria.
OTHER WORKS
- The Strange Story of the World - (2019) Granta.com
- Toni Morrison: Farewell to America's Greatest Writer - (2019) The Guardian
- Finding The Light Under The Bushel: How One Writer Came To Love Books (2018) - New York Times
- Life-Saving Optimism: What the West Can Learn From Africa - The Guardian
- Africa Has Been Failed By Westernisation (2017) - The Guardian
- 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
>> January 20 : Launch of the French Edition of An Orchestra of Minorities, Paris
>>January 23: An Evening with Chigozie Obioma at Shakespeare and Company, Paris.
>> February 15: Workshop: Believable Fiction with Chigozie Obioma, SOMOS salon, Taos, NM
>>January 23: An Evening with Chigozie Obioma at Shakespeare and Company, Paris.
>> February 15: Workshop: Believable Fiction with Chigozie Obioma, SOMOS salon, Taos, NM
