Stephen Buoro
Stephen Buoro is a Nigerian writer who was born in 1993.[1]
Personal life
Buoro comes from "a very strong Catholic background,"[2] describes the Bible as "the book that's defined my life"[3] and is the fourth of six children.[4] His northern Nigerian parents migrated to the south to escape political turmoil,[5] meaning that Buoro was born in the southern town of Ososo.[4] They later returned to the north and made their home in Kontagora, the setting of his first novel.[5]
Buoro learnt to read at the age of eight.[6] Although his parents were not educated beyond primary school level, he credits the "wonderful conversations" he had with his mother, and her ingenious and witty use of language, with inspiring him to become a writer.[6] Buoro was awarded a scholarship to a missionary school[4] where he received corporal punishment for speaking his local language.[7] At the age of eleven he started writing[8] after being deeply affected by the death of his father, as "a way of bringing all those feelings out and examining them".[4] As well as self-publishing poetry on his blog, he had poems published in Nigerian magazines and newspapers.[8]
Career
After gaining a first-class degree in mathematics[9] Buoro earned "a pittance"[10] working as a part-time mathematics teacher for seven months in Nigeria.[7]
In 2018 Buoro received the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship[1] and began writing his first novel, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, on his BlackBerry phone.[8] Publishing rights to the book were sold for six-figure sums in the UK and the USA[9] and an excerpt won second place in the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award in 2020.[1] Described by The Guardian as "an exhilarating, tragicomic novel that questions what it means to come of age in Nigeria today," it was published in 2023[4] and received generally positive reviews.[11] According to Buoro, influences on the novel include Chinua Achebe, Anthony Burgess, Junot Díaz, Fyodor Dostoevsky and J. D. Salinger.[12]
Buoro has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia[13], where he is currently studying for a PhD in Creative-Critical writing.[1]
Bibliography
- Buoro, Stephen (2023). The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1526637994. Search this book on
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Stephen Buoro — University of East Anglia". Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ "Stephen Buoro on his comic novel 'The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa'". 2023-04-23. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ "Shelf Awareness". Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Meet the 10 best new novelists for 2023". The Guardian. 2023-01-08.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Seidel, Matt (2023-01-06). "Writers to Watch in Spring 2023". Publishers Weekly.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jeffers, Juliette (2023-04-18). "Stephen Buoro Uncovers the Magic and Mysteries of Northern Nigeria". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Nwokedi, Kenechukwu. "Blonde Obsession and Western Influence: An Interview with Stephen Buoro". STATEMENT. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Riehl, Peter (2023-05-08). "Stephen Buoro Brings to Life "HXVX," a Loveable Teen Protagonist, and Modern Nigeria in All its Beauty, Contradictions, and Permutations". Chicago Review of Books.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Comerford, Ruth (2020-10-16). "Bloomsbury wins auction for Buoro's 'astonishing' debut". The Bookseller.
- ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (2022-10-25). "How UEA's Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship nurtures the next generation of authors". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ "The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2023-08-12..
- ↑ "Stephen Buoro author interview". Bloomsbury. 2023-04-20. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ Lee Brewer, Robert (2023-04-19). "Stephen Buoro: On Listening to the Character's Voice". Writer's Digest.
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