Nigerian writer, Tochi Onyebuchi, has emerged as one of the winners of this year’s the American Library Association’s Alex Award for his novel, Riot Baby.
Tochi was awarded alongside other winners at the 2021 American Library Association Youth Media Awards held on January 25.
The American Library Association’s Alex Awards was found in 1998. The awards are given annually to “ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. They are sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist. Ten books are selected annually because such a list allows, among other reasons, “a greater variety of titles” and “a more balanced list — fiction and nonfiction, as well as various genres.”
Last year, Tochi’s Riot Baby emerged as the winner of the 2020 New England Book Award for Fiction. The book has been selected by the Boston.com Book Club as their first read for 2021.
Here is a full list of this year’s winners.
Congratulations Tochi Onyebuchi!
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