Tola Rotimi Abraham among finalists of 2021 Legacy Awards
‘Black Sunday’ by Tola Rotimi Abraham has been listed among the nominees for the Legacy Awards Debut Fiction category at the 2021 Hurston/ Wright Legacy Awards.
‘Black Sunday’ is the first fiction novel from the Iowabased Nigerian. Her works have appeared in several journals and she hopes to follow the steps of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in winning the prize when the winners will be revealed at the Legacy Awards Ceremony on October 15, 2021.
Adichie won the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Awards 2004 (Best Debut Fiction Category) for ‘Purple Hibiscus’.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, named for US African American writers Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, honour the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe.
The Legacy Award for fiction, nonfiction and poetry was introduced in 2001 as the first national award in the United States presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers.
Other 2021 Legacy Awards Debut Fiction nominees are The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw; Remembrance, Rita Woods; The Coyotes of
Carthage, Steven Wright.
‘The Freedom Artist’ by Ben Okri is also nominated in the 2021 Legacy Awards Fiction’s category.
In the 2021 Legacy Awards Nonfiction nominees is Ijeoma Oluo’s ‘Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America’ is also in contention. She is a Nigerian-American writer and author of ‘So you want to talk about race’.
There are also nominees in the 2021 Legacy Awards Poetry category.