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Chris Abani

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Gender Male
Age 57
Web site www.chrisabani.com
Date of birth December 27,1966
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Afikpo
Nigeria
Job Poet
Author
Novelist
Academic
Awards PEN/Hemingway Award
Pushcart Prize
Lannan Literary Fellowship
PEN/Open Book
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Official site chrisabani.com
Education University of Southern California
Notabl work GraceLand
Becoming Abigail
The Secret History of Las Vegas
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Date of Upd.
ID438107

Song for Night
Graceland
The virgin of flames
Becoming Abigail
The Secret History of Las Vegas
Kalakuta Republic
The Face: Cartography of the Void
Hands Washing Water
Daphne's Lot
Masters of the board
Dog Woman
There Are No Names for Red
Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems
Making the Trees Shiver: An Anthology of the First Six Years of the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival
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Christopher Abani is a Nigerian-American and Los Angeles- based author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in "that troubled African nation".

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