| From |
Nigeria |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1979, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria |
| Age: | 41 years |
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (born 1979) is a Nigerian novelist and writer.
Career
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. He holds a BA in Mass Communication from the University of Jos.
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.
Ibrahim has won the BBC 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 was included in the Africa39 anthology of the most promising sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40. He was a mentor on the 2013 Writivism programme and judged the Writivism Short Story Prize in 2014. He is chair of judges for the 2016 Etisalat Flash Fiction Prize.
His first novel, Season of Crimson Blossoms, was published in 2015 by Parrésia Publishers in Nigeria and by Cassava Republic Press in the UK (2016). Season of Crimson Blossoms was shortlisted in September 2016 for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, Africa’s largest literary prize. It was announced on 12 October 2016 that Ibrahim was the winner of the $100,000 prize. Ibrahim is the recipient of the 2016 Goethe-Institut & Sylt Foundation African Writer’s Residency Award which he will take up at the Sylt Foundation´s headquarters in 2017. Ibrahim is the Deputy Arts & Entertainment Editor of the ‘Daily Trust’ newspaper, and lives in Abuja, Nigeria.
Published works
- Season of Crimson Blossoms (Nigeria: Parresia Publishers, 2015; UK: Cassava Republic Press, 2016)
- “Painted Love” in Valentine’s Day Anthology 2015 (Ankara Press, 2015)
- The Whispering Trees (Parresia Publishers, 2012; ISBN 978-9789237258)
- “Lily in the Moonlight” in The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories (New Internationalist, 2014)
- “Echoes of Mirth” in Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
- “The Sunbird with a Broken Wing” (Cecile’s Writers Magazine, 2014)
- “Night Calls” in Daughters of Eve and Other New Short Stories from Nigeria (CCC Press, 2010)