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
- 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
>> March 22: Abuja, Nigeria: Roving Heights Bookstore
>> March 25: Lagos, Nigeria: Page Connoisseurs Bookstore, Lagos
>> March 29: Port-Harcourt, Nigeria: Port-Harcourt Literary Society, Port-Harcourt
>> April 2-7: Iceland Writer's Retreat, Reykjavik, Iceland
>> April 9: Kulturhuset Stardstream, Stockholm, Sweden (Tickets sold out*) with Yukiko Duke
>> April 10 : University of Gotheburg, Sweden with Mikela L. Hero
>> April 19: Hearth Book Promotion in Chico, Montana
>> April 22: AVID Reader Festival at the Des Moines Public Library
>> April 26-27: Arkansas Book Festival, Arkansas
>> May 30: An Orchestra of Minorities at the Vermont Studio, VT
>> July 7: AfricaWrites Festival, London
>> March 25: Lagos, Nigeria: Page Connoisseurs Bookstore, Lagos
>> March 29: Port-Harcourt, Nigeria: Port-Harcourt Literary Society, Port-Harcourt
>> April 2-7: Iceland Writer's Retreat, Reykjavik, Iceland
>> April 9: Kulturhuset Stardstream, Stockholm, Sweden (Tickets sold out*) with Yukiko Duke
>> April 10 : University of Gotheburg, Sweden with Mikela L. Hero
>> April 19: Hearth Book Promotion in Chico, Montana
>> April 22: AVID Reader Festival at the Des Moines Public Library
>> April 26-27: Arkansas Book Festival, Arkansas
>> May 30: An Orchestra of Minorities at the Vermont Studio, VT
>> July 7: AfricaWrites Festival, London