Chigozie Obioma combines classic African storytelling with contemporary fiction in this haunting fable suffused with supernatural power.
Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015, after the huge impact of his debut novel.
The Fisherman won the inaugural Financial Times/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award for Fiction; the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author; and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction [Los Angeles Times Book Prizes]. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015, as well as for several other prizes in the UK and US.
All nominated books
In the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about the tension between destiny and determination.
