Nigerian Writer Chigozie Obioma

Nigerian writer, Chigozie Obioma has been announced as one of six authors shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize. Obioma’s novel: An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of a young Nigerian chicken farmer whose love for a woman drives him to become an African migrant in Europe. Told in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, it is described by judge Afua Hirsch as "a book that wrenches the heart". This is the second novel by the writer to have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.