page_title: Musaddam Idriss Musa
section_title: Awards and nominations
hierarchical_section_title: Musaddam Idriss Musa / Awards and nominations
caption_attribution_description: English: Musaddam recieving an award certificate during the 2019 HAF's Annual Best Writers of the Year Awards.
context_page_description: Musaddam Idriss Musa is a multilingual Nigerian writer, journalist, poet, songwriter, novelist and publisher as well as literary critic. He worked as editor and correspondent of many Nigerian newspapers, including Leadership, Mujallar ADABI, Neptune Prime, Premium Times and Jakadiya. He also authored the official biography of the late Major-General Idris Alkali. He is the founder and president of the Writers Guild of Nigeria and active member of the Nigerian Folklore Society. Musaddam has been the Director of Media and Publicity of the Yobe Writers Association since 2018 and the pioneer Lead Representative of Poets in Nigeria, Potiskum Connect Centre as well as the Chairman of Potiskum Writers Association.
context_section_description: Musaddam is one of the leading authors and literary critics in northern Nigeria. His novel, Mutum Da Mahaliccinsa (Man and his creator), which he wrote while still a student in Harvard University, won first place prize in the maiden ZEWA Novel Writing Competition organised by the Zazzau Emirate Writers Association, Zaria.
  His short story Bangar Siyasa (Political Thuggery), won the third prize in the maiden Kainuwa Authors Forum short story writing competition.
  His other works include Living on the breadline, a travelogue on his tour of Jos, Nasarawa and Abuja the capital territory titled Ilimi Mabudin Tafiya, a biography of the late Major-General Idriss Alkali, Animal Tales with moral lessons for children, Classical poems for children, Saban the warrior a legendary book based on Karaikarai mythology, Modern Practical Chemistry according to Waec and Neco Syllabuses, Matsafi Zarman (Zarman the magican) among others. He is presently editing an anthology of short stories for the Potiskum Writers Association.
caption: Musaddam receiving an award certificate during the 2019 HAF's Annual Best Writers of Year Awards Event in American Corner, Kano State Library
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