Chigozie Obioma\'s "The Fishermen" is a powerful and heartbreaking novel about four brothers living in a small Nigerian town whose lives are forever changed when a local madman prophesies that one of them will be killed by another. Set against a
Chigozie Obioma (1986) was born in Akure, Nigeria. He is the author of three novels: The Fishermen (2015), An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) and The Road to the Country (2024). The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities were finalists for the Booker Prize and have been translated into 30 languages. He has won an LA Times book prize, the Internationaler Literaturpris, FT/Oppenheimer prize for fiction, an NAACP Image Award and has been nominated for two dozen prizes for fiction. He was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015 and on the 100 Most Influential Africans list by NewAfrican magazine in 2015 and 2024.