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Samuel K\u1ecd\u0301l\u00e1w\u1ecdl\u00e9 was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. His critically acclaimed debut novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, received the 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the 2025 PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the 2024 International Book Awards, and was longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize.<\/p>\n

Other honors for his work include finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, and the UK’s The First Novel Prize.<\/p>\n

He studied at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing with distinction from Rhodes University, South Africa; is a graduate of the MFA in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts; and earned his PhD in English and Creative Writing from Georgia State University.<\/p>\n

He teaches fiction writing full-time as an assistant professor of English and African studies at Pennsylvania State University. 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