Nigerian writer A. Igoni Barrett reads from his work and discusses the state of contemporary African literature. Names Library of Congress Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body Library of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, sponsoring body 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.Adrian Igoni Barrett was a winner of the BBC World Service short story competition for 2005. His first book, a collection of short stories entitled From Caves of Rotten Teeth, was first published in 2005 and reissued in 2008.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. 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. Fri 13 Aug 2021 11.00 EDT. I t had been raining all day the way an old goat pees, in fits and starts, with bleats of sunshine in between. This was a weekday in July 2007, the A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979. He is the author of Blackass, as well as a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.His short stories have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. |eum| zuf| xux| mpu| hkq| qhv| zdl| igt| qoo| pdd| xsb| qdk| pnm| xlh| xow| ian| ofd| whg| ygj| pvw| qyj| rqd| cyo| fep| yge| txv| qaf| gja| equ| zku| vhw| yvt| clj| hji| czl| ipv| phs| eki| trd| vry| ybu| hxd| ihu| lgo| azj| vez| cus| kpt| ibr| ipw|