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Akwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and artist based in liminal spaces. Born and raised in Nigeria, they received their MPA from New York University. They were awarded a 2015 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship and won the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. Their work has been selected and edited by Chimamanda Adichie, and published in various literary magazines, including Granta.
Awards: Nommo (2021), Otherwise (2019), NBA (2018) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
Novels
Freshwater (2018)
Pet (2019)
The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
Bitter (2022)
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty (2022)
Little Rot (2024)
Son of the Morning (2025)
Somadina (2025)
Pet (2019)
The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
Bitter (2022)
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty (2022)
Little Rot (2024)
Son of the Morning (2025)
Somadina (2025)
Collections
Non fiction show
Awards
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Akwaeke Emezi recommends
Harry Sylvester Bird (2022)
Chinelo Okparanta
"In her long-anticipated sophomore novel Harry Sylvester Bird, Chinelo Okparanta deftly slips into a new skin to deliver a scathing and incisive look at white America. A must-read for everyone committed to the work of anti-racism, Harry Sylvester Bird is both a delightfully unsettling and deeply necessary political text; a timely triumph of satire by one of our finest literary minds."
Vagabonds! (2022)
Eloghosa Osunde
"Some of the most spectacular writing I've ever encountered in my life... VAGABONDS! brought me to tears because it gave me a world in which my country could be home again."
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