Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His three novels, The Fishermen (2015), An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), and The Road to the Country (2024) have been awarded numerous prizes, including LA Times book prize, the Internationaler Literaturpris, FT/Oppenheimer prize for fiction, and an NAACP Image award and is a two-time finalist for the Booker prize. His books have been nominated for more than two dozen prizes and translated into 32 languages. His first two novels were both finalists for The Booker Prize. He was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015 and a 100 Most Influential Africans list by NewAfrican Magazine in 2015 and 2024. He served as a judge of the Booker prize in 2021. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere. He is the Helen S. Lanier Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Georgia, the program director of the Oxbelly Fiction Writers retreat and fiction editor at The RepublicMagazine.