Nii Parkes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nii Parkes
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Apr 1, 1974(1974-04-01)
Age	50
Birthplace	Lincolnshire
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Nii Parkes Biography

Nii Parkes is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on April 1, 1974 in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. Nii Ayikwei Parkeres (/ Nii Ayikwei Parkes (/ I’aI’ K W eI’ at a:r k s/ born on April 1, 1974) Born in United Kingdom to parents from Ghana in Ghana, in which he was raised. is a performer, writer editor, publisher and sociocultural critic. He is among the 39 writers less than 40 in sub-Saharan Africa who were selected in the Hay Festival’s famous Africa39 project.

Parkes Short stories by Parkes can be read within Tell Tales: Volume I (Tell Tales) and Mechanics Institute Review (Birkbeck) as well as excerpts from his latest novel work, Afterbirth, is featured in the New Writing 15 anthology published by Granta in June 2007.

His debut novel, Tail of the Blue Bird, was published by Jonathan Cape in June 2009, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Translated into French by Sika Fakambi, it was published as Notre Quelque Part by Éditions Zulma, winning the 2014 Prix Baudelaire, Prix Mahogany and Prix Laure Bataillon and being selected by leading literary magazine Lire as the Best First Foreign Book of the year and one of the Top 20 books published in France in 2014.

In 2012 Parkes represented Ghana at Poetry Parnassus at the Southbank Centre in London, the largest international poetry festival in the UK held in conjunction with the London Olympics. In autumn 2014 the University of Tübingen welcomed him and his fellow writers Taiye Selasi, Priya Basil and Chika Unigwe and to that year’s Writers’ Lectureship, all of them writers representing what Selasi calls Afropolitan Literature.

A frequent participant in numerous poetry festivals and previously a poet-in- residence in the Poetry Cafe in London, poets have performed in Europe, the United Kingdom, Europe, Ghana and the United States and was a 2005 Associate Artist-in-Residence at BBC Radio 3. In 2007, he was a British Council writer- in-residence at California State University, Los Angeles and was among the newest writers living today (along along with Owen Sheers and Choman Hardi) who was featured on his own Poems on the Underground programme in London with his poem “Tin Roof”.

Nii Parkes Net Worth

Nii Parkes is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nii Parkes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the UK as his parents were in school there, Nii Parkes was raised at to the age of 3 to four in Ghana in Ghana, where he was educated at the Achimota School. His first role as an editor was in 1988 when he was working for his school’s journal, The Achimotan, and He later founded at the age of 17 in filla! magazine the first Ghanaian student-run national magazine. Parkes then went on to study theology in England as a student at Manchester Metropolitan University. There, he was recognized as a performer and was also a part of the Black Writer’s Group of Commonword. He was the children’s poet in residence during Brighton Festival in 2007. Brighton Festival in 2007.

A skilled performer of his work He has performed at readings across the globe, including Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York as well as The Royal Festival Hall, London and Java, Paris, and frequently leads workshops on performance and writing. The poet was the resident for Borders Bookstores, where he hosted the monthly open mic in the area of Charing Cross Road between 2001 between 2001 and 2005.

He became the Booktrust’s online writer-in-residence in 2009. In 2010 he became a writer-in-residence for the charity First Story. He also runs the African Writers’ Evening series at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden.

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Top Facts about Nii Parkes

1. Nii Parkes is a British-Ghanaian writer, born in 1974.
2. He is a performance poet, writer, publisher and broadcaster.
3. Parkes has published two poetry collections: “Tail of the Blue Bird” and “The Makings of You”.
4. He has also edited several anthologies including “Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry”.
5. Parkes was awarded the ACRAG award for poetry in 2007.
6. He has been a guest on BBC Radio 4’s “Front Row” and “Saturday Review”.
7. In addition to his writing, he has worked as an arts administrator and creative writing tutor.
8. Parkes co-founded Flipped Eye Publishing in 2001.
9. His work often explores themes of identity, culture and migration.
10. Parkes currently lives in London with his family.