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Chris Abani

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 26 1966

Website: Go to Website

Christopher Abani is a Nigerian author.

He was a political prisoner in Nigeria at various times during 1985 and 1991. At times he was held in solitary confinement and he was held on death row for some time after being sentenced to death for treason.

He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Awards, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Selections of his poetry appear in the online journal Blackbird.

Chris Abani

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 26 1966

Website: Go to Website

Christopher Abani is a Nigerian author.

He was a political prisoner in Nigeria at various times during 1985 and 1991. At times he was held in solitary confinement and he was held on death row for some time after being sentenced to death for treason.

He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Awards, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Selections of his poetry appear in the online journal Blackbird.

Books from Chris Abani

GraceLand

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Secret History of Las Vegas

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Becoming Abigail

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Virgin of Flames

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Face: Cartography of the Void

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Lagos Noir

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Kingston Noir

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Sanctificum

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Kalakuta Republic

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Hands Washing Water

Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop

4.4/5 ( ratings)

A Song for Night

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Controlled Decay

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa

4.4/5 ( ratings)

New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Voices in Wartime Anthology

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Lard Buurman: Africa Junctions: Capturing the City

Sundown Salon 2001-2006 in Words and Pictures: A Project by Fritz Haeg

The Wire-Headed Heathen

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Making the Trees Shiver: An Anthology of the First Six Years of the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival