Adam Ibrahim Abubakar is the author of the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms, which has won the Nigerian Prize for Literature, Africa’s richest literature prize, and been translated into several languages including French, German and Tamil. It follows his debut short story collection, The Whispering Trees, which explored the fantastical and ordinary to capture colourful Nigerian lives. Abubakar is also the recipient of the Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling, the BBC African Performance Prize and has received fellowships and residencies from the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation in Colombia, the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy, Art Omi (Ledig House) Residence in New York, among others.