Brooke Obie’s Debut Novel ‘Book of Addis’ Shortlisted for Two International Awards
The Ghana-based Accra International Book Festival Awards has released its 2018 shortlist for the First Book Award and Independent Writers Award. Brooke Obie’s debut novel, Book of Addis, is shortlisted for both awards.
“The shortlist for the Accra International Book Festival (AIBF)’s 2018 First Book Award and Independent Writers Award is announced today.
The AIBF Book Awards is open to writers of any nationality writing in English and French and whose work can reshape the mindset of the world.
This year’s list features the work of four women and a man, covering fiction, poetry and non-fiction.”
The winners of each award will be announced on AccraBookFest.com and a ceremony for all of the shortlisted authors and the winners will take place in Accra, Ghana in 2019.
More about Book of Addis:
BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS is an epic tale of love, loss and the cost of liberation. The alternative history novel follows 17-year-old Addis who escapes from her enslaver, the first president of a young country. On the run for her life, with unlikely friends and a nation of enemies, Addis becomes the most wanted person alive and a global symbol of hope to enslaved people longing for freedom. Written in an 18th Century Black Diasporic vernacular, Book of Addis reaches back in time to explore the intergenerational impact of oppression and plots a daring path into the future. The first in a 3-part series, BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS won the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for First Fiction and the 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for self-published fiction.
More about Brooke C. Obie:
Brooke C. Obie is the award-winning author of Book of Addis: Cradled Embers and the managing editor of the Black entertainment digital news site Shadow And Act. Brooke is a graduate of Hampton University, summa cum laude, Mercer University School of Law, where she served as the first Black Eleventh Circuit Survey Editor of the Mercer Law Review, and The New School’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Fiction program, where her novel proposal, which became BOOK OF ADDIS: CRADLED EMBERS, was a finalist for the Fulbright Fellowship. She’s attended Columbia University’s writer’s workshop in Paris, France and the Callaloo Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters Creative Writing Workshop at Oxford University.