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Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian fiction writer and video artist, best known for their novels Freshwater, Pet, and their New York Times bestselling novel The Death of Vivek Oji. Emezi is a generalist who writes speculative fiction, romance, memoir and poetry for both young
Still from Take The Mark, 2017. Still from 'This World Has Killed Me ', 2017. Books, 2018-2022. Still from 'Bathe Me In Blood', 2020. Still from 9999 Black Jabs, 2016. Portrait by David Uzochukwu. Website for the artist and deity AKWAEKE.
AKWAEKE is an artist based in liminal spaces. Born and raised in Nigeria, their work spans literature, music, film, and visual art. Their debut EP Stop Dying, You Were Very Expensive! was released on March 8, 2024 and their eighth book Little Rot was published on June 18, 2024 by Riverhead Books.
Welcome - Akwaeke Emezi. Originally published in Wasafiri Magazine. The light was gone, sucked back into the black wires that hung off the roof and stretched across the expressway, leaving the kitchen a study in blurs. Ogugua popped open the plastic crate of eggs and felt around for the matches, his pupils widening to inhale the grey air.
Akwaeke Emezi is a nonbinary trans author of FRESHWATER, PET, and THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI. They are a 2018 National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree and a 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner.
Aug 3, 2020 · You know what's going to happen in Akwaeke Emezi's new book — it's right there in the title: The Death of Vivek Oji. But this novel about a death is full of gender-bending, boundary...
Akwaeke Emezi has taken off their masks—the ones we all wear that grin and lie, as poet Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote. The ones that hide and shade more than our cheeks and eyes, camouflaging the...
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