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Novelist
Chigozie Obioma teaches English and creative writing at the University of Nebraska –Lincoln. His first novel, The Fishermen, was a finalist for the Man Booker prize. His most recent, "An Orchestra of Minorities," is already on more than 20 national “best new fiction” lists.