AUTHOR BIO
Chigozie Obioma 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 January 2019.
Chigozie Obioma 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 January 2019.
OTHER WORKS
- Finding The Light Under The Bushel: How One Writer Came To Love Books (2018) - New York Times
- 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
>> July 26th: Event on the Premiere of The Fishermen, a play at HOME Theatre, Manchester, UK
>>July 31-5th August: Glen Writer's Conference, New Mexico, US
>> August 18-22: Bienial Brasil Do Livro Festival, Brasilia, Brazil
>> Sept 1-5: World Festival in Zagreb, Croatia
>> Sept 21-23: ZEE JLF at Boulder, CO
>>July 31-5th August: Glen Writer's Conference, New Mexico, US
>> August 18-22: Bienial Brasil Do Livro Festival, Brasilia, Brazil
>> Sept 1-5: World Festival in Zagreb, Croatia
>> Sept 21-23: ZEE JLF at Boulder, CO