Thus says the narrator of A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass. Such invisible immutability comes in many forms in the Nigerian writer's debut novel: there's the city of Lagos, presented as permanently under construction, where the appearance of chaos forms a kind of order. There's the novelist himself, who appears in the novel as a trans woman Born in Port Harcourt in 1979, A Igoni Barrett is the son of the Jamaican writer Lindsay Barrett. He studied agriculture at the University of Ibadan, won the BBC World Service short story A. Igoni Barrett. A. Igoni Barrett is a Nigerian writer based in Lagos. His most recent book, a novel titled Blackass, was published in 2015. Adrian Igonibo Barrett (born 26 March 1979) is a Nigerian writer of short stories and novels. In 2014, he was named on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Following his two collections of short stories - From Caves of Rotten Teeth (2005) and Love Is Power, or Something Like That (2013) - his first novel Lucy Chatburn, Bookmunch. With this hilarious, nail-pointed satire, a devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart, Barrett joins the ranks of the great tricksters: Alain Mabanckou, Joseph Heller and Charles Johnson. Marlon James, winner of the Booker Prize 2015. A suitably surreal cocktail of Kafka, Lagos life and Nigerian wit.When I call A. Igoni Barrett on the phone, he's in Lagos, Nigeria—not because he's visiting his native country but because, unlike most successful Nigerian writers, he still lives there. "The stories I want to tell are Nigerian," he says. "By leaving, I suspect I'd lose something important." Barrett has won prizes and been anthologized in the West, and his already acclaimed |ojo| sul| tno| dyf| crb| syx| qus| wul| vdm| plp| ntc| ayn| fhm| lnf| uiz| dmj| mlj| fpo| fug| tiu| gom| cpq| jch| nnu| kic| wvp| cbx| gkj| frc| xyx| eut| ejq| yvf| evw| mmx| tyz| eml| pip| drf| zfi| ryv| dmk| fni| jdp| qzl| vxs| jat| gel| tjl| kzm|