Adebayo, Ayobami
Ayobami Adebayo was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014. Her first novel Stay With Me, for which she was awarded the 9Mobile award, was published by Canongate in the UK and Knopf in the USA, and translation rights were sold to a range of overseas publishers, including Ouida Books in Nigeria. In 2017 it was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was also nominated for the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize, the Wellcome Book Prize, and the Prix Les Afriques.
