birth_date: 1979-03-26 00:00:00
avg_rating: 3.44
name: A. Igoni Barrett
about: Adrian Igoni Barrett was a winner of the BBC World Service short story competition for 2005. His first book, a collection of short stories entitled From Caves of Rotten Teeth, was first published in 2005 and reissued in 2008. 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 father is the Jamaican poet and novelist Lindsay Barrett.