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Nii Ayikwei Parkes - Ghanaian writer |
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a Ghanaian-British writer, editor and publisher, who has won acclaim as a children's author, poet, broadcaster and novelist. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks: eyes of a boy, lips of a man (1999), his début; M is for Madrigal (2004), a selection of seven jazz poems; and Ballast (2009), an imagination of the slave trade by balloon. His poem, ‘Tin Roof’, was selected for the Poems on the Underground initiative in 2007, followed by the poem ‘Barter,’ chosen from his first full collection The Makings of You, published by Peepal Tree in 2010. His novel, Tail of the Blue Bird (Jonathan Cape, 2009), hailed by the Financial Times as ‘a beautifully written fable… simple in form, but grappling with urgent issues,’ was lauded internationally, becoming a bestseller in Germany and notably winning France's two major prizes for translated fiction – Prix Baudelaire and Prix Laure Bataillon – in 2014. He is also the author of two books for children – The Parade and Tales from Africa – under the name K.P. Kojo. Nii Ayikwei serves on the boards of World Literature Today and the AKO Caine Prize and has served as a judge for several literature prizes including the Commonwealth Prize, the NSK Neustadt Prize and the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize. In 2014 he was named one of Africa's 39 most promising authors of the new generation by the World Book Capital Africa 39 Project. His latest books are The Geez, which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Walcott Prize and is a Poetry Book Society 2020 Recommendation, and a Ga language book, The Ga Picture Alphabet; which was shortlisted for the 2021 Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize. Nii Ayikwei is also the founder, Senior Editor and publisher at flipped eye publishing, where he edits poetry and fiction, and has been responsible for the publishing débuts of award-winning writers such as Roger Robinson, Warsan Shire and Nikesh Shukla. He is 2022/23 Hutchins Family Fellow with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. |
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes, novelist, playwright, poet, Ghanaian writer, literature, poetry, Accra, African Writer, spoken word artist, fiction, short stories, Nii Parkes, contemporary poetry, Hutchins Family Fellow, Harvard University |
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Ghana |
