A Nigerian writer known as Chigozie Obioma has been longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize award.
The Booker Prize award is one of the highest British awards for literature and Nigerian writer’s second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, was nominated on Wednesday. The writer definitely faces strong competition as there are other great novels nominated alongside his. His book, The Fisherman was also nominated and among the finalists in 2015.
The fisherman has been translated into 27 different languages and has won several awards too.
- See the full list of nominations:
- Margaret Atwood- The Testaments
- Kevin Barry- Night Boat to Tangier
- Oyinkan Braithwaite- My Sister: The Serial Killer
- Lucy Ellmann- Ducks- Newburyport
- Bernardine Evaristo- Girl, Woman, Other
- John Lanchester- The Wall
- Deborah Levy- The Man Who Saw Everything
- Valeria Luiselli- Lost Children Archive
- Chigozie Obioma- An Orchestra of Minorities
- Max Porter- Lanny
- Salman Rushdie- Quichotte
- Elif Shafak- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- Jeanette Winterson- Frankissstein.
Congratulations to Chigozie! We wish him the best.
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