Chris Abani is a Nigerian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. His publications include The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames and Graceland. He is Professor of English at Northwestern University, and the recipient of many prizes, including the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the PEN Hemingway Prize. www.chrisabani.com
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Chris Abani: Kalakuta Republic
This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria’s military regime in the late 1980s.Abani vividly describes …
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Kate Durbin: The Ravenous Audience (Black Goat)
A startling debut volume, the latest in Chris Abani’s Black Goat Poetry Series. “Durbin’s debut volume sizzles . . . Throughout this deeply feminist, groundbreaking collection, she employs both the e …
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Jude Dibia & Nnedi Okorafor: Lagos Noir
“A stellar cast of award-winning Nigerian authors . . . a must-read for crime lovers looking for something different.”—Brittle Paper In Akashic Books’s acclaimed series …
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Chris Abani: Hands Washing Water
“Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength.”—Pride Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani’s fourth poetry collecti …
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Chris Abani: Sanctificum
“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” &md …
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Chris Abani: Song For Night
Even with the knowledge that there are some sins too big for even God to forgive, every night my sky is still full of stars; a wonderful song for night. Trained as a human mine detector, a boy soldie …
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Chris Abani: Becoming Abigail
A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and Grace Land. —A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Moody, lyrical prose reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s& …
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Chris Abani: Song for Night
“A devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away.”—Los Angeles Times Part In …
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Cristina Garcia: Lesser Tragedy of Death
From the National Book Award-nominated author of Dreaming in Cuban, “breathtakingly beautiful” poems about her troubled, self-destructive brother (The Austin Chronicle). “[A] …
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Chris Abani: Virgin of Flames
For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city’s tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above ‘The Ugly Store’, he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, th …
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Chris Abani: Lagos Noir
An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria’s best loved writers. From the intr …
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Chris Abani: The Face: Cartography of the Void
“A fascinating meditation on identity that explores the novelist’s own mixed heritage and mixed feelings….A true citizen of the world….With great insight and compassion, Abani reveals that behind his …
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Chris Abani: Smoking the Bible
An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central prac …
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Tanella Boni: There Where It’s So Bright in Me
There Where It’s So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spann …
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Chris Abani: GraceLand
A teenage Elvis impersonator navigates the Lagos ghetto in this "searing chronicle of a young man’s coming of age in Nigeria during the late 1970s" (Publishers Weekly).Elvis Oke dreams of e …
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Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani: Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani’s unprecedented disquisition on the state of African poetry.  …
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