Morehouse College (BA) Harris Manchester College, Oxford (MSc)
Awards
Caine Prize (2013) Whiting Award for Fiction (2021)
Website
Official website
Tope Folarin (born 1981) is a Nigerian-American writer and executive director of the Institute for Policy Studies. He won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story "Miracle".[1] In April 2014 he was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region.[2] His story "Genesis" was shortlisted for the 2016 Caine Prize.[3]
^"Previous winners: 2013 Tope Folarin", The Caine Prize.
^Africa39 list of artists, Hay Festival.
^Alison Flood, "Nigerian author Tope Folarin in running for second Caine prize", The Guardian, 11 May 2016.
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