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Akwaeke Emezi

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Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Award; Pet,a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book; Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize; and most recently, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir. Their debut poetry collection, Content Warning: Everything, their debut romance novel, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, and their next young adult novel, Bitter, are forthcoming in 2022. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.

Akwaeke Emezi Books

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Little Rot

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Content Warning: Everything

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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty book cover

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

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Bitter book cover

Bitter

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Dear Senthuran book cover

Dear Senthuran

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The Death of Vivek Oji book cover

The Death of Vivek Oji

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Pet book cover

Pet

Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater book cover

Freshwater

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