AKWAEKE EMEZI

SELECTED PRESS

• TIME MAGAZINE — ‘My Job in the Revolution Is as a Storyteller.’ Akwaeke Emezi Is Writing New Possibilities Into Being
  
• GOOD MORNING AMERICA  — This week’s ‘GMA’ Buzz Pick is ‘The Death of Vivek Oji’ by Akwaeke Emezi
  
• DEADLINE — Amazon, Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society Land Akwaeke Emezi Novel ‘You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty’
  
• VARIETY — FX to Develop Series Adaptation of Akwaeke Emezi’s ‘Freshwater’ With Tamara P. Carter
  
• NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED — 'Vivek Oji' Is Very Much Alive In This Boundary-Breaking New Novel 
  
• THE WASHINGTON POST (Book Review) — '‘The Death of Vivek Oji’ explores lives outside society’s expectations'
• THE NEW YORK TIMES (Book Review) — 'His Family Misses Him. But Did They Ever Really Know Him?'
• NPR (Book Review) — Love Triumphs Over Death In 'The Death Of Vivek Oji' 
• ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY — 'Akwaeke Emezi Previews New Nigeria-Set Novel The Death Of Vivek Oji'
• THE NEW YORK TIMES — ‘This Is a Possibility’: Akwaeke Emezi Writes a Trans Story Where Nobody Gets Hurt
• THE NEW YORK TIMES (Book Review) — 'In This Genre-Bending Novel, You Better Believe the Monsters Are Real' 
  
• TEEN VOGUE — 'Akwaeke Emezi on "Pet" and on Making a Better World for Their Protagonist, a Black Trans Girl Named Jam'
  
• KIRKUS REVIEWS — YA Feature: Akwaeke Emezi
• THE NEW YORKER (Book Review) — A Startling Début Novel Explores the Freedom of Being Multiple
• THE GUARDIAN  — Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi - a remarkable debut (review by Ayòbámi Adébáyò)
• VOGUE MAGAZINE — 5 Families Who Are Changing The World As We Know It
  
• THE NEW YORKER — Briefly Noted
  
• THE NEW YORK TIMES — The Coming of Age of Trans-Lit
• THE NEW YORK TIMES (Book Review) — In This Debut Novel, a College Student Hears Voices
• L.A. TIMES — A dazzling, devastating novel: 'Freshwater' by Akwaeke Emezi
• SEATTLE TIMES — Freshwater’: a bewitching tale of gods and a girl coming of age
• VOX — Freshwater is an electric debut novel from a major new talent
• THE RUMPUS —Uncovering Buried Roots: Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
• TOR.COM — Of Gods and Men: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• TORONTO STAR — Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel Freshwater ‘stunning, disorienting’
• BROADLY — The Nonbinary Author Centering African Narratives Erased by Colonialism