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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (born 1979) is a
Nigerian
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writer and journalist. He was described by German broadcaster
Deutsche Welle as a northern Nigerian "literary provocateur" amidst the international acclaim his award-winning novel ''
Season of Crimson Blossoms
''Season of Crimson Blossoms'' is an adult fiction debut novel by Nigerian writer and journalist Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. The novel, set largely in the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, depicts an unusual salacious affair between the 55-year old widow Ha ...
'' received in 2016.
Career
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim was born in
Jos,
North-Central Nigeria, and holds a BA degree in Mass Communication from the
University of Jos
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History
What became the University of Jos was established in November 1971 from the satellite campus of the University of Ibadan. ...
.
His debut short-story collection ''The Whispering Trees'' was longlisted for the inaugural
Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014, with the title story shortlisted for the
Caine Prize for African Writing
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. The collection was re-published by Cassava Republic Press for international distribution in 2020 and a French translation will be published in 2022.
In 2014 he was selected for the
Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature, and was included in the anthology ''Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara'' (ed.
Ellah Allfrey). He was a mentor on the 2013 Writivism programme and judged the
Writivism Short Story Prize in 2014. He was chair of judges for the 2016 Etisalat Flash Fiction Prize.
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African Performance Prize and the ANA Plateau/Amatu Braide Prize for Prose. He is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013), a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015) and a 2018 Art OMI Fellow. In 2016, Ibrahim was the recipient of the
Goethe-Institut & Sylt Foundation African Writer's Residency Award and in March 2020 he was a Dora Maar Fellow.
His first novel, ''Season of Crimson Blossoms'', was published in 2015 by
Parrésia Publishers in Nigeria and by
Cassava Republic Press
Cassava Republic Press is a steering African book publishing company established in Nigeria in 2006 and headed by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, in the UK (2016). It was translated into French by Marc Amfreville, published by L'Editions de l'Observatoire in 2018 and nominated for the Prix Femina Étranger. The German translation was published by Residenz Verlag in 2019. ''Season of Crimson Blossoms'' was shortlisted in September 2016 for the
Nigeria Prize for Literature
Nigeria Prize for Literature is a Nigerian literary award given annually since 2004 to honor literary erudition by Nigerian authors. The award rotates among four genres; fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature, repeating the cycle every ...
, Africa's largest literary prize. It was announced on 12 October 2016 that Ibrahim was the winner of the $100,000 prize.
His second short story collection, ''Dreams and Assorted Nightmares'' was published by
Masobe Books in 2020.
His short story
A Love Like This', narrated by Georgina Elizabeth Okon, Nene Nwoko and
Ike Amadi
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''Injustice ...
, was published as an Audible Original Story in 2021.
Ibrahim worked at the ''
Daily Trust
Media Trust is a privately held Nigerian newspaper publishing company based in Abuja that publishes the English-language ''Daily Trust'', ''Weekly Trust'', ''Sunday Trust'' and the Hausa-language ''Aminiya'' newspapers, as well as a new pan-Afr ...
'' newspaper for over a decade in a variety of roles, latterly as Features Editor, before leaving to pursue postgraduate studies. He continues to write a weekly column entitled 'Line of Sight'. Ibrahim's reporting from North-East Nigeria has won particular critical acclaim. In May 2018 he was announced as the winner of the Michael Elliot Award for Excellence in African Storytelling, awarded by the International Center for Journalists, for his report "All That Was Familiar", published in ''
Granta
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'' magazine in May 2017. Ibrahim was a 2018 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
He has spoken at numerous events, conferences and festivals including the Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, the British Library, Jaipur Literature Festival, PEN World Voices and at the Library of Congress.
He lives in
Abuja, Nigeria.
Publications
* "Night Calls" in ''Daughters of Eve and Other New Short Stories from Nigeria'' (CCC Press, 2010)
* "Echoes of Mirth" in ''Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara'' (London:
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014)
* ''The Whispering Trees'' (
Parrésia Publishers, 2012; )
* ''Painted Love'' in ''Valentine's Day Anthology 2015'' (
Ankara Press, 2015)
* ''Season of Crimson Blossoms'' (Nigeria: Parrésia Publishers, 2015; UK:
Cassava Republic Press
Cassava Republic Press is a steering African book publishing company established in Nigeria in 2006 and headed by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, , 2016)
* "All That Was Familiar" (
Granta
''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...
, 2017)
*''La Saison des fleurs de flamme'' (
Editions de l'Observatoire, 2018)
*''Wo Wir Stolpern und Wo Wir Fallen'' (
Residenz Verlag, 2019)
* ''Dreams and Assorted Nightmares'' (
Masobe Books, 2020)
*''A Love Like This'' (Audible, 2021)
*When We Were Fireflies (Masobe Books and logistics Limited, 2023)
References
External links
*
* Ikechukwu Ogbu
"Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Is Not Hassan Reza: An Evening with the Novelist" ''
Brittle Paper
''Brittle Paper'' is an online literary magazine styled as an "African literary blog" published weekly in the English language. Its focus is on "build(ing) a vibrant African literary scene." It was founded by Ainehi Edoro (at the time a doctoral ...
'', 9 January 2019.
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University of Jos alumni
1979 births
Living people
Nigerian male novelists
21st-century Nigerian novelists
21st-century male writers
Nigeria Prize for Literature winners
People from Jos