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A. Igoni Barrett

A. Igoni Barrett

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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

Books by A. Igoni Barrett

Blackass

A brilliant Kafka-esque satire - with a sting in the tail - from 'one of the finest writers around' Guardian

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Love is Power or Something Like That

A phenomenal short story collection of talent and range from a writer to watch

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