Chigozie Obioma, whose 2015
first novel, ”The Fishermen”, was shortlisted for The Booker Prize, is again on
this year shortlist of six novels with his second novel, ”An Orchestra of
Minorities.”
The other novels on the
shortlist announced in London on Tuesday include ”Quichotte” by Salman Rusdie;
”The Testament” by Margaret Atwood; “Ducks” by Lucy Ellmann; ”Girl, Woman,
Other” by Bernadine Evaristo; and ”10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World”
by Elif Shafak.
The winner of this
prestigious prize will be announced on 14 October at the Guildhall in London.
Obioma, born in 1986, is a
Nigerian writer and 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, he was named
one of “100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine.
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