Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is an award-winning Nigerian writer and journalist. He has published two critically acclaimed novels and two short story collections. His debut novel, Season of Crimson Blossoms, won the 2016 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, Africa’s largest literary prize, and the French translation of the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Femina Etranger. The novel has also been translated into German and Tamil.
His debut short story collection, The Whispering Trees (2012) was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature; its title story was shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. Abubakar’s second short story collection Dreams and Assorted Nightmares was published by Masobe Books in 2022.
His new novel, When We Were Fireflies, was published in Nigeria in 2023 and is due out in French and German in 2024. It has been shortlisted for the inaugural Hodler Prize and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize.