Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) is a Nigerian writer. He is, effective Fall 2015, an 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.\"His first novel, The Fishermen, won the inaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award, and was on the shortlists for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edinburgh Festival First Book Award, and The Guardian First Book Award.The Fishermen was a New York Times Sunday Book Review Editor's Choice selection, one of the American Library Association's five best debuts of spring 2015, a Publishers Weekly book of the week, and one of Kirkus Reviews′ \"10 Novels to Lose Yourself In.\"Obioma states that, in addition to being a tribute to his siblings, the novel aims to \"build a portrait of Nigeria at a very seminal moment in its history (the annulled presidential elections of 1993), and by so doing deconstruct and illuminate the ideological potholes that still impede the nation’s progress even today.\""@en }
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- Chigozie_Obioma abstract "Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) is a Nigerian writer. He is, effective Fall 2015, an 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.\"His first novel, The Fishermen, won the inaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award, and was on the shortlists for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edinburgh Festival First Book Award, and The Guardian First Book Award.The Fishermen was a New York Times Sunday Book Review Editor's Choice selection, one of the American Library Association's five best debuts of spring 2015, a Publishers Weekly book of the week, and one of Kirkus Reviews′ \"10 Novels to Lose Yourself In.\"Obioma states that, in addition to being a tribute to his siblings, the novel aims to \"build a portrait of Nigeria at a very seminal moment in its history (the annulled presidential elections of 1993), and by so doing deconstruct and illuminate the ideological potholes that still impede the nation’s progress even today.\"".