Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
| Abubakar Adam Ibrahim | |
|---|---|
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Photograph of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim | |
| Born |
1979 Jos, Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | University of Jos |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Notable work |
The Whispering Trees Season of Crimson Blossoms |
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (born 1979) is a Nigerian novelist and writer.
Career
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. He holds a BA in Mass Communication from the University of Jos.[1]
His debut short story collection The Whispering Trees was longlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014,[2] with the title story shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.[3]
Ibrahim has won the BBC African Performance Prize[4] and the ANA Plateau/Amatu Braide Prize for Prose. He is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013),[5] a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015)[6] and was included in the Africa39 anthology of the most promising sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40.[7] He was a mentor on the 2013 Writivism programme and judged the Writivism Short Story Prize in 2014.[8] He is chair of judges for the 2016 Etisalat Flash Fiction Prize.[9]
His first novel, Season of Crimson Blossoms, was published in 2015 by Parrésia Publishers in Nigeria and by Cassava Republic Press in the UK (2016).[10] Season of Crimson Blossoms was shortlisted in September 2016 for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, Africa's largest literary prize.[11] It was announced on 12 October 2016 that Ibrahim was the winner of the $100,000 prize.[12] Ibrahim is the recipient of the 2016 Goethe-Institut & Sylt Foundation African Writer's Residency Award which he will take up at the Sylt Foundation's headquarters in 2017.[13] Ibrahim is the Deputy Arts & Entertainment Editor of the 'Daily Trust' newspaper, and lives in Abuja, Nigeria.
Published works
- Season of Crimson Blossoms (Nigeria: Parresia Publishers, 2015; UK: Cassava Republic Press, 2016)
- "Painted Love" in Valentine's Day Anthology 2015 (Ankara Press, 2015)
- The Whispering Trees (Parresia Publishers, 2012; ISBN 978-9789237258)
- "Lily in the Moonlight" in The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories (New Internationalist, 2014)
- "Echoes of Mirth" in Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
- "The Sunbird with a Broken Wing" (Cecile's Writers Magazine, 2014)
- "Night Calls" in Daughters of Eve and Other New Short Stories from Nigeria (CCC Press, 2010)
References
- ↑ "Abubakar Adam Ibrahim". Parrésia Publishers. 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "The Inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist". Etisalat Nigeria. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Fourteenth Caine Prize shortlist announced". The Caine Prize for African Writing. April 2013. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "African Performance 2007". BBC. 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Selected for the Gabriel García Márquez fellowship in cultural journalism". Fundacion Gabriel Garcia Marquez para el Nuovo Periodismo Iberoamericano. FNPI. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Civitella Announces 2015 Fellows". Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Civitella Ranieri Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Africa 39 list of artists". Hay Festival. 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Writivism Short Story Prize 2014 Longlist". Books Live. Times Media Group. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Etisalat Prize for Literature". Etisalat Prize for Literature. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 2017-01-09.
- ↑ "Abubakar Adam Ibrahim". Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ↑ "Nigeria LNG Ltd".
- ↑ "Premium Times".
- ↑ "Sylt Foundation".