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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.
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 will be 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.
“Freshwater is the first novel from Akwaeke Emezi, marking the beginning of what will surely be a long, storied career. Strikingly original and impossible to put down, it tracks the life of a Nigerian woman—from birth through to her adulthood unraveling—and will leave you breathless by the very end.”—
Akwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. They are a 2018 National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree and their debut autobiographical novel FRESHWATER is currently a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and long-listed for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, making it the first time in the 27-year ...
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...
