Uwem Akpan

**Uwem Akpan** (an haifeshi ranar 19 ga watan Mayun shekara ta1971) marubucin Najeriya ne. Shi ne marubucin littafin *Ka ce kana ɗaya daga cikinsu* (2008), tarin labarai guda biyar (kowanne an tsara shi a wata ƙasa ta Afirka daban) wanda kamfanin, Little, Brown & Company suka buga. Littafin ya zaburar da Angelique Kidjo wajen rubuta wakar “Agbalagba”. *[[New York Times|Jaridar New York Times]]* ta sanya shi Zabin Edita, da *Nishaɗi na mako-mako* sun jera shi a #27 a cikin Mafi kyawun Shekaru Goma. Littafin, *Ka ce kana ɗaya daga cikinsu* ya ci lambar yabo ta Commonwealth Writers Prize (yankin Afirka), lambar yabo ta Open Book Prize, da lambar yabo ta Hurston/Wright Legacy. *New York Times* da *Wall Street Journal* #1 mafi kyawun siyarwa, an fassara shi zuwa harsuna 12. Ya ci lambar yabo ta Marubuta ta Commonwealth,  lambar yabo ta PEN Open Book,  wanda Oprah Winfrey Book Club  Satumba 17, 2009, a Central Park, ya zaɓa. Bayan watanni biyu, Oprah ta yi hira da Uwem a Chicago a matsayin wani ɓangare na taronta na gidan litattafai tare da Anderson Cooper ta ba da taƙaitaccen sharhi kan wasu ƙasashen Afirka a cikin littafin Uwem. An watsa hirar kai tsaye lokaci guda daga Oprah.com, Facebook da CNN.

Littafin Uwem na biyu, *New York, My Village*, an kuma buga shi a ranar 2 ga Nuwamba, 2021 ta WW Norton. Babban Shagon Littattafai na Strand ya zaɓi littafin a matsayin Zaɓaɓɓen watan na Nuwamba 2021.

## Rayuwa
Ya halarci makarantar firamare ta Saint Paul, Ekparakwa; Makarantar Firamare ta Methodist, Usung Ibong; da Makarantar Firamare ta Saint Anne, Ifuho; Kuma ya yi karatunsa na sakandare a makarantar Queen of Apostles, Afaha Obong, duk a Jihar Akwa Ibom a chikin Najeriya. Uwem ya girma yana sauraron tatsuniyoyi na Annang daga mahaifiyarsa da kakanninsa da kannena iyayensa da kakanninsa. Littafi Mai Tsarki, The Bible, da kuma mugun abin da ya faru na Yaƙin Biafra sun ba da wasu hanyoyin yin labarai. Lokacin da ya koyi karatu a makarantar firamare, ya mayar da wannan soyayyar labaran zuwa littattafai. A lokacin da malamai suka tafi yajin aiki a lokacin yana Firamare biyar a farkon 80s, hakan bai yi masa ba. Bayan ya karanci ilimin dan Adam da falsafa a Jami'ar Creighton da Jami'ar Gonzaga, ya sami digirin tauhidi daga Jami'ar Katolika ta Gabashin Afirka da ke Kenya. A cikin 2003, an naɗa Akpan a matsayin limamin Jesuit. Uwem kuma ya kammala karatun digiri na MFA na Jami'ar Michigan.

A cikin 2009, Oprah Winfrey ta ba da shawarar akan littafin Uwem Akpan *[[Say You're One of Them]]* ta Ce littafin na ɗaya daga cikinsu a matsayin zaɓin kulob ɗin littafinta na 63. Uwem ya ce ya yi tawali'u da sanin tarin gajerun labarai da ya fara fitowa ya dauki wa Winfrey ido. Oprah ta ce Ka ce kai ɗaya ne daga cikinsu "ya bar [ta] cike da mamaki." Gajerun labarai guda biyar da Kagaggun litattafan  suna ba da murya ga yaran Afirka da suka girma a cikin fuskantar bala'i mai ban mamaki.

Tsakanin 2010 da 2017, Uwem ya kasance mabiyi a Cibiyar Black Mountain Institute (Jami'ar Nevada, Las Vegas), Cibiyar Harkokin Dan Adam (Jami'ar Michigan, Ann Arbor), Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, New York), Cibiyar Cullman New York Public Library (NYC, New York) da kuma Cibiyar Hank don Katolika Heritage (Jami'ar Loyola Chicago, 2017). A cikin 2015, Akpan ya bar cocin Katolika don mayar da hankali kan rubuce-rubucensa.

Uwem yana zaune a Gainesville, Florida, kuma yana koyarwa a cikin shirin rubutu na Jami'ar Florida.

## Ayyuka
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**New York, My Village*. W. W. Norton, Nov 2021. 

## Kyaututtuka
* Wanda ya lashe kyautar Marubuta ta Commonwealth
* Wanda ya lashe kyautar PEN Open Book Award
* Wanda ya ci lambar yabo ta Hurston/Wright Legacy
* Wanda ya zo na ƙarshe don Kyautar Zaman Lafiya ta Adabi ta Dayton a cikin rukunin (Fiction Category)
* Wanda ya yi nasara a lambar yabo ta Los Angeles Times Seidenbaum don (First Fiction) 
* Wanda aka zaba don Kyautar Guardian First Book Award
* Wanda aka zaba don Kyautar Caine don Rubutun Afirka
* Kyautar, Longlisted for the Story Prize

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin haɗi na waje
*Official website
*''Say You're One of Them'', official website (includes excerpt, author bio, etc.).
*"As Africa's Horrors Rage, Suffer the Little Children", *[[New York Times]]*, review by Janet Maslin, June 27, 2008.
*"Unflinching Evil in 'Say You're One of Them'", NPR review by Maureen Corrigan, June 19, 2008.
*Book Review of ''Say You're One of Them'', Joseph Adero Ngala, Director of People for Peace in Africa (PPA) in Nairobi, Kenya. This review originally was published in *Colleagues Home & Abroad Regional News* (PPA) on 9 September 2008.