A. Igoni Barrett
- January 6, 2024
- Writer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | A. Igoni Barrett |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Date Of Birth | Mar 26, 1979(1979-03-26) |
| Age | 45 |
| Birthplace | Port Harcourt |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Birth City | Port Harcourt |
| Horoscope | Aries |
A. Igoni Barrett Biography
| Name | A. Igoni Barrett |
| Birthday | Mar 26 |
| Birth Year | 1979 |
| Place Of Birth | Port Harcourt |
| Home Town | Port Harcourt |
| Birth Country | Nigeria |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Parents | Lindsay Barrett |
A. Igoni Barrett is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 26, 1979 in Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His debut novel Blackass won the People’s Literature Publishing House and the Chinese Foreign Literature Society’s 21st Century Best Foreign Novel Award.
Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to a Nigerian mother and the Jamaican novelist and poet Lindsay Barrett, A. Igoni Barrett studied agriculture at the University of Ibadan. In 2007 he moved to Lagos, where he met his wife, the Dutch journalist and writer Femke van Zeijl.
Invited as a participant to various literary festivals, Barrett was a guest reader on the opening night of the PEN World Voices Festival in 2013, and a guest writer at the Serpentine Galleries’ Miracle Marathon in 2016 and the 2018 edition of Festivaletteratura. He was the founding organizer of the BookJam reading series in Lagos, Nigeria, which featured the writers Jude Dibia, Michela Wrong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Binyavanga Wainaina, Helon Habila and Tsitsi Dangarembga, among others.
His second collection of stories, Love Is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013; according to the Boston Globe, the collection “pulses with an indomitable life force that is, by turns, tender and fierce”. Time Out New York commented: “These rich pieces are also brilliantly sequenced…. Shifts in mood happen throughout the book…. Unlikely moments of empathy occur again and again amid wrenching drama and subtle comedy; the resulting collection satisfies on numerous levels.” Love is Power, or Something Like That was chosen as a “best book of 2013” by NPR and Flavorwire.
A. Igoni Barrett was a winner of the BBC World Service short story competition for 2005 with a story entitled “The Phoenix”, which was broadcast on 2 January 2006.
A. Igoni Barrett Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
A. Igoni Barrett is one of the richest Writer from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, A. Igoni Barrett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Adrian Igonibo Barrett (born 26 March 1979) is a Nigerian writer of short stories and novels. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.
His first book, a collection of short stories entitled From Caves of Rotten Teeth, was published in 2005 and reissued in 2008. A story from the collection, “The Phoenix”, won the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition.
In 2010, he was awarded a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship. In 2011, he was awarded a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship and a Bellagio Center Residency.
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A. Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. A. Igoni Barrett celebrates birthday on March 26 of every year.