Uwem Akpan

Uwem Akpan is a Nigerian writer who writes powerful touching stories. He is known 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.

Akpan's second book and debut novel, ''New York, My Village'' (2021), was published by W. W. Norton. The book was picked by Strand Bookstore as their Pick of the Month for November 2021. It was shortlisted for the 2022 Chinua Achebe Prize and longlisted for the 2025 Nigeria Literature (NLNG) Prize. Provided by Wikipedia