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. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities was published in January 2019 to wide acclaim and is being translated into 18 languages. The novel was also a finalist for the Booker prize, making Obioma one of only two writers in history to be a finalist for all their published books. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and in Nigeria where where he runs various projects.
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. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities was published in January 2019 to wide acclaim and is being translated into 18 languages. The novel was also a finalist for the Booker prize, making Obioma one of only two writers in history to be a finalist for all their published books. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and in Nigeria where where he runs various projects.
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