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About Jude Dibia
- Jude Dibia (born 5 January 1975 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist.Dibia studied at the University of Ibadan, and earned a B.A in Modern European Languages (German).He is the author of three well received novels: Walking with Shadows (BlackSands Books, 2005), Unbridled (2007), and Blackbird (2011).
- His novels have been described as daring and controversial by readers and critics in and out of Africa.
- Walking with Shadows is said to be the first Nigerian novel that has a gay man as its central character and that treats his experience with great insight, inviting a positive response to his situation.
- Unbridled, too, stirred some controversy on its publication; it is a story that tackles the emancipation of its female protagonist, who had suffered incest and various abuse from men.
- Unbridled went on to win the 2007 Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Prose (sponsored by NDDC/ANA) and was a finalist in the 2007 Nigeria Prize for Literature (sponsored by NLNG). Dibia's short stories have appeared on various online literary sites, including AfricanWriter.com and Halftribe.com.
- One of his short stories is included in the anthology One World: A global anthology of short stories, alongside stories by such critically acclaimed writers as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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