Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Explained

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Birth Place:Jos, Nigeria
Alma Mater:University of Jos
Notable Works:Season of Crimson Blossoms
Awards:Nigeria Prize for Literature (2016)
Nationality:Nigerian
Occupation:Writer, journalist

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. He was described by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle as a northern Nigerian "literary provocateur" amidst the international acclaim his award-winning novel Season of Crimson Blossoms received in 2016.[1]

Career

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim was born in Jos, North-Central Nigeria, and holds a BA degree in Mass Communication from the University of Jos.[2]

His debut short-story collection The Whispering Trees was longlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014,[3] with the title story shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.[4] The collection was re-published by Cassava Republic Press for international distribution in 2020[5] and a French translation was published in 2022.[6]

In 2014 he was selected for the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature,[7] [8] and was included in the anthology Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (ed. Ellah Allfrey).[9] He was a mentor on the 2013 Writivism programme and judged the Writivism Short Story Prize in 2014.[10] He was chair of judges for the 2016 Etisalat Flash Fiction Prize.[11]

Ibrahim has won the BBC African Performance Prize[12] and the ANA Plateau/Amatu Braide Prize for Prose. He is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013),[13] a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015)[14] and a 2018 Art OMI Fellow.[15] In 2016, Ibrahim was the recipient of the Goethe-Institut & Sylt Foundation African Writer's Residency Award[16] and in March 2020 he was a Dora Maar Fellow.[17]

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).[18] It was translated into French by Marc Amfreville, published by L'Editions de l'Observatoire in 2018 [19] and nominated for the Prix Femina Étranger.[20] The German translation was published by Residenz Verlag in 2019.[21] Season of Crimson Blossoms was shortlisted in September 2016 for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, Africa's largest literary prize.[22] It was announced on 12 October 2016 that Ibrahim was the winner of the $100,000 prize.[23] [24]

His second short story collection, Dreams and Assorted Nightmares was published by Masobe Books in 2020.[25]

His short story A Love Like This, narrated by Georgina Elizabeth Okon, Nene Nwoko and Ike Amadi, was published as an Audible Original Story in 2021.

Ibrahim worked at the Daily Trust newspaper for over a decade in a variety of roles, latterly as Features Editor, before leaving to pursue postgraduate studies.[26] He continues to write a weekly column entitled 'Line of Sight'.[27] Ibrahim's reporting from North-East Nigeria has won particular critical acclaim. In May 2018 he was announced as the winner of the Michael Elliot Award for Excellence in African Storytelling, awarded by the International Center for Journalists, for his report "All That Was Familiar", published in Granta magazine in May 2017.[28] Ibrahim was a 2018 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.[29]

He has spoken at numerous events, conferences and festivals including the Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, the British Library, Jaipur Literature Festival, PEN World Voices and at the Library of Congress.[30]

He lives in Abuja, Nigeria.

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nigeria's Literary Provocateur. Deutsche Welle. Gwendolin Hilse. 13 January 2018.
  2. Web site: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. 2015. 4 June 2015. Parrésia Publishers. https://web.archive.org/web/20150623010926/http://www.parresia.com.ng/abubakar-adam-ibrahim/. 23 June 2015. dead.
  3. Web site: The Inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist. 20 December 2013. 4 June 2015. Etisalat Nigeria.
  4. Web site: Fourteenth Caine Prize shortlist announced . April 2013 . 4 June 2015 . The Caine Prize for African Writing . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150607122503/http://www.caineprize.com/news_2013_shortlist.php . 7 June 2015 .
  5. Web site: 2020-04-14. The Whispering Trees Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Cassava Republic Press. 2021-12-25. en-US.
  6. Book: Les arbres qui murmurent. fr.
  7. [Margaret Busby]
  8. Web site: 2014. Africa 39 list of artists. Hay Festival. 4 June 2015.
  9. [Mukoma Wa Ngugi]
  10. Web site: 22 May 2014. Writivism Short Story Prize 2014 Longlist. Books Live. Times Media Group. 4 June 2015.
  11. Web site: 14 October 2016. Etisalat Prize for Literature. 9 January 2017. Etisalat Prize for Literature.
  12. Web site: African Performance 2007. 2007. 4 June 2015. BBC World Service.
  13. Web site: Selected for the Gabriel García Márquez fellowship in cultural journalism. 25 October 2012. 4 June 2015. Fundacion Gabriel Garcia Marquez para el Nuovo Periodismo Iberoamericano. FNPI.
  14. Web site: Civitella Announces 2015 Fellows. 2015. 4 June 2015. Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Civitella Ranieri Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20180720195013/http://www.civitella.org/fellows/fellows-list. 20 July 2018. dead.
  15. Web site: Art OMI. 6 June 2018. 6 June 2018.
  16. Web site: Winner of the 2016 Goethe-Institut & Sylt Foundation African Writer's Residency Award announced!. 17 August 2016. Sylt Foundation.
  17. Web site: Adam Ibrahim Abubakar. 2021-12-25. La Maison Dora Maar et L'Hôtel Tingry. en-US.
  18. Web site: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. 26 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150909051752/http://www.akefestival.org/index.php/features/aabf-2015-guests/item/501-abubakar-adam-ibrahim. 9 September 2015. dead.
  19. Web site: La Saison des fleurs de flamme. 2021-12-25. www.editions-observatoire.com. fr.
  20. Web site: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim dans la sélection du Prix Femina Étranger. 2021-12-25. www.editions-observatoire.com. fr.
  21. Web site: Wo wir stolpern und wo wir fallen, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Susann Urban, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Susann Urban. Residenz Verlag. 2021-12-25. www.residenzverlag.com. de.
  22. Web site: Shortlist of three for NLNG sponsored US$100,000 literature prize emerges. Nigeria LNG Ltd. Eresia-Eke. Kudo. 31 October 2016.
  23. Web site: 2016 Winner of $100,000 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature announced. Premium Times. Odeh. Nehru. 12 October 2016.
  24. AWT (13 October 2016), "Abubakar Adam Ibrahim wins the 2016 Nigerian Prize for Literature", African Writers Trust.
  25. Web site: Guest. Africa in Words. 2020-12-01. Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Abubakar Adam Ibrahim about his latest collection "Dreams and Assorted Nightmares" (2020). 2021-12-25. en.
  26. Web site: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim School of Journalism and Mass Communication - The University of Iowa. 2022-02-08. journalism.uiowa.edu. en.
  27. Web site: Pardon Our Interruption. 2021-12-25. muckrack.com.
  28. Web site: Nigerian Reporter Wins 2018 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling. ICFG. 8 May 2018. International Center for Journalists.
  29. Web site: Dart Names Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,13 Others Ochberg Fellows. Daily Trust. 7 November 2017. All Africa.
  30. Web site: Events Abubakar Adam. 2021-12-25. en-US.

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