Stay with me
(
Serie Kwani? series
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Book 12
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Published in
Nairobi, Kenya
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Ayobami Adebayo was born in Lagos, Nigeria; shortly after, her family moved to Ilesa and then to Ile-Ife, where she spent most of her childhood in the University Staff Quarters of Obafemi Awolowo University. She studied at Obafemi Awolowo University, earning BA and MA degrees in Literature in English, and in 2014 she went to study Creative Writing (MA Prose fiction) at the University of East Anglia, where she was awarded an International Bursary. In 2015, she was listed by the Financial Times as one of the bright stars of Nigerian literature. Her debut novel, "Stay With Me", was published in 2017 by Canongate Books to critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Prior to publication the work had been shortlisted in 2013 by the Kwani? Manuscript Project a prize for unpublished fiction, of which the Series Editor is Ellah Allfrey
