SOMOS A Place for Words in Taos presents CHIGOZIE OBIOMA Reading: Friday, 2/14/20, at 7 pm at the Harwood Museum Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His debut novel, The Fishermen, is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the LA Times prize for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize 2015. Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, was a finalist for the 2019 Booker prize and the Digital World Book prize. Together, his two novels have been translated into more than 30 languages and adapted into stage. He is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. THE HARWOÖD Tickets are $20 general and $16 for SOMOS and Harwood members. Museum of Art Call the Harwood for advance reserved tickets: 575.758.9826 SOMOS A Place for Words in Taos presents CHIGOZIE OBIOMA Reading: Friday, 2/14/20, at 7 pm at the Harwood Museum Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His debut novel, The Fishermen, is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the LA Times prize for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize 2015. Obioma was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015. His second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, was a finalist for the 2019 Booker prize and the Digital World Book prize. Together, his two novels have been translated into more than 30 languages and adapted into stage. He is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. THE HARWOÖD Tickets are $20 general and $16 for SOMOS and Harwood members. Museum of Art Call the Harwood for advance reserved tickets: 575.758.9826