21. June 2020
#WeTurnToBooks with Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Instagram Live | English-language event.
As part of their #WeTurnToBooks series on Instagram Live, Brittle Paper talks to authors who have recently published a new book, or have a book to be published soon.
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is the author of the short story collection The Whispering Trees, the title story of which was shortlisted for AKO Caine Prize in 2013. His reporting from North-East Nigeria has won particular critical acclaim. He was the 2018 winner of the Michael Elliot Award for Excellence in African Storytelling for his report, “All That Was Familiar,” published in Granta in May 2017. His second collection of short stories, Dreams and Assorted Nightmares, is forthcoming with Masobe books in July 2020.