Ayobami Adebayo

Nigerian author · Nigeria · Writers · Born 1988 · age 38

Ayobami Adebayo is read about 30 times a day, in 21 languages.

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Ayobami Adebayo is a Nigerian writer, whose debut novel, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature in 2017. She was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture in the same year.

A life in dates

2023“Now hear me well - what is not yours is not yours o, even if you marry the person that has that thing. If it is not yours, it is not yours o.”In their wordsA Spell of Good Things (2023)Read the whole statement

“He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better.”In their wordsA Spell of Good Things (2023)Read the whole statement

“Maybe she was one of those people for whom satisfaction lay only in the future, forever slightly out of reach.”In their wordsA Spell of Good Things (2023)Read the whole statement

2017“Before you call the snail a weakling, tie your house to your back and carry it around for a week.”In their wordsStay with Me (2017)Read the whole statement

“What would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits.”In their wordsStay with Me (2017)Read the whole statement

“The road stretches before us, shrouded in a darkness transitioning into dawn as it leads me back to you.”[https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/52027766-stay-with-me?page=2”In their wordsStay with Me (2017)Read the whole statement

1988Born29 January 1988

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Ayobami Adebayo

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Now hear me well - what is not yours is not yours o, even if you marry the person that has that thing. If it is not yours, it is not yours o.
2023, A Spell of Good Things (2023), Own words
Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered.
2023, A Spell of Good Things (2023), Own words
He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better.
2023, A Spell of Good Things (2023), Own words