Author of the month!!!

Our Author of the month , goes to Chigoze Obioma :-D 

   Chigozie looks totally handsome and cute. But that is not why he is the author of the month on my blog for April. 

Chigozie Obioma , is  an excellent writer who knows how to describe and weave his words well and effortlessly. He has this unique beautiful style of  writing. 

   Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure ,  and attended the Cyprus international university and university of Michigan.  He is a Nigerian writer and an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.He has been called, in a New York Times book review, "the heir to Chinua Achebe."In 2015, Obioma was named one of "100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine. He is best known for writing the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both of which were shortlisted for the Booker prize in their respective years of publication. Between the two books, his work is being translated into thirty languages. Pretty amazing right?

   

  

 Chigozie is of Igbo descent, Obioma was born into a family of 12 children — seven brothers and four sisters – in Akure, in the southwestern part of Nigeria,where he grew up speaking Yoruba, Igbo, and English. As a child, he was fascinated by Greek myths and the British masters, including Shakespeare, John Milton, and John Bunyan. Among African writers, he developed a strong affinity for Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero; Cyprian Ekwensi's An African Night's Entertainment; Camara Laye's The African Child; and D. O. Fagunwa's Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀, which he read in its original Yoruba version. Obioma cites his seminal influences as The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola, for its breadth of imagination; Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, for its enduring grace and heart; The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, both for the power of their prose; and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, for its  in Igbo culture and philosophy.

His Orchestra of the minorities was a finalist for the man Booker prize. His fishermen was the  Winner for Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and Nebraska Book Award For Fiction 2016.  His books have received more numerous awards and recognition.

     Chigozie is definitely an author who inspires us.