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Place of Birth: Nigeria
About Uwem Akpan
- Uwem Akpan (born May 19, 1971) is a Nigerian writer.
- He is the author of Say You’re One of Them (2008), a collection of five stories (each set in a different African country) published by Little, Brown & Company.
- It won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and was picked by the Oprah Winfrey Book Club on September 17, 2009.
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