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Chigozie Obioma

Nigerian writer · Nigeria · Writers · Born 1986 · age 40

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Chigozie Obioma (1986) was born in Akure, Nigeria. He is the author of three novels: The Fishermen (2015), An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) and The Road to the Country (2024). The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities were finalists for the Booker Prize and have been translated into 30 languages.

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2019“I've always wanted to write something that will show the world that prior to the coming of the British to Nigeria, we had some kind of complex systems.”In their wordsOn what he envisioned for his novel An Orchestra of Minorities in “The Spirit Tells The Story In 'Orchestra Of Minorities'” in NPR (2019

“There are some rhetorical moves that I wouldn’t be able to make if I didn’t know these languages.”In their wordsOn his first novel The Fishermen in “'Why Jay?': Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel” in The Guardian (2019 Jan

“They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.”In their wordsAn Orchestra of Minorities (2019)

“Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.”In their wordsAn Orchestra of Minorities (2019)

“For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.”In their wordsAn Orchestra of Minorities (2019)

“All the peace that had returned after his father finished mourning his wife for many years vanished at once.”In their wordsAn Orchestra of Minorities (2019)

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  1. I've always wanted to write something that will show the world that prior to the coming of the British to Nigeria, we had some kind of complex systems.

    2019, On what he envisioned for his novel An Orchestra of Minorities in “The Spirit Tells The Story In 'Orchestra Of Minorities'” in NPR (2019, Own words

  2. I believe that some of the strongest stories we can have begin with very simple archetypes…The great mother, or the great father, for example.

    2019, On archetypes in “'Why Jay?': Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel” in The Guardian (2019 Jan 18), Own words

  3. There are some rhetorical moves that I wouldn’t be able to make if I didn’t know these languages.

    2019, On his first novel The Fishermen in “'Why Jay?': Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel” in The Guardian (2019 Jan, Own words

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Awards

Hopwood Award
Oppenheimer Award

About this person

Chigozie Obioma (1986) was born in Akure, Nigeria. He is the author of three novels: The Fishermen (2015), An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) and The Road to the Country (2024). The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities were finalists for the Booker Prize and have been translated into 30 languages. He has won an LA Times book prize, the Internationaler Literaturpris, FT/Oppenheimer prize for fiction, an NAACP Image Award and has been nominated for two dozen prizes for fiction. He was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015 and on the 100 Most Influential Africans list by NewAfrican magazine in 2015 and 2024.

Country
Nigeria
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1986 · age 40

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