Chigozie Obioma

Writer

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two previous novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, were both finalists for the Booker Prize. His novels have won the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award for Fiction, an NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction, and have been nominated for many others. Together, they have been translated into thirty languages. He was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. A professor of creative writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, he divides his time between the United States and Nigeria.