Uwem Akpan 1 credits

Born May 19, 1971 in Nigeria

Uwem Akpan is a Nigerian fiction writer whose works include fiction, short fiction, essays, autobiography, and public lectures. He is widely recognized as the author of Say You're One of Them (2008), a collection of five stories (each set in a different African country) published by Little, Brown & Company. His debut book achieved international success. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region), the PEN Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was picked for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. A New York Times and Wall Street Journal No. 1 bestseller, the book has been translated into 12 languages.

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