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Chris Abani
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Chris Abani was born in Afikpo, Nigeria in 1966.
Abani's fiction includes The Virgin of Flames, GraceLand, Masters of the Board, and Becoming Abigail. His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne's Lot, and Kalakuta Republic.
He is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince
Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN Hemingway Book Prize. He lives
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Abani Online
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www.chrisabani.com
Read the Poetry Foundation's article on Chris Abani >>More
Interview with Abani. >>More
Read an excerpt from Abani's Graceland. >>More |
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WORLD VOICES EVENTS
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 Thursday, April 27 at 2:00
Exiles in America
Friday, April 28 at 12:00
Reading: Chris Abani, Rodrigo Fresán, Yiyun Li, and Frederic Tuten
Friday, April 28 at 8:00
Conversation: Chris Abani & Colm Tóibín |
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Chris Abani on Faith & Reason: The New Religion
 Faith is something like this, I imagine. Not of God. But of a pen or a brush / held up like the last flaming torch of the century, and yet flimsy— / this desire of the artist to keep the blue from swallowing it all up. / Like something that happens only at night. / Like a lie and desperation so thick you can breath it. >> Read more
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Bibilography
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Fiction
Becoming Abigail, 2006
Graceland, 2004
Masters of the Board, 1985
Poetry
Hands Washing Water, 2006
Dog Woman, 2004
Daphne’s Lot, 2003
Kalakuta Republic, 2000 |
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