Nigerian Writer Makes Booker Prize Shortlist
Chigozie Obioma has been shortlisted for his debut novel The Fishermen, about four young brothers who meet a madman in a small Nigerian town.
Chigozie Obioma.
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Nigeria:
Nigerian Writer Makes Booker Prize Shortlist
Vanguard, 15 September 2015
Marlon James on Tuesday became the first Jamaican shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, with a novel inspired by an assassination attempt on Bob Marley. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Young Authors Not Always 'Heirs' to Literary Forebears
The Conversation Africa, 8 September 2015
Chigozie Obioma's Man Booker Prize nomination for The Fishermen follows by more than ten years that of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus in 2004. No other Nigerian writer… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Nigerian Writer, 12 Others Longlisted for 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Premium Times, 30 July 2015
The longlist, or 'Man Booker Dozen', for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize was announced Wednesday, July 29 . Read more »
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Nigeria:
Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma in the Race for U.S.$78,000 Booker Prize
This Day, 30 July 2015
The Fishermen, a novel by Nigeria's budding writer, Chigozie Obioma, is among the 13 novels shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for fiction written in English. Read more »