VOX
"The Satanic Verses has “become a symbol of freedom of speech,” said Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man. And on a craft level, he said, Rushdie “is a master of doing this sprawling, big-picture fiction that includes a host of characters, and is really about showing your virtuosity….Read More >
atlanta journal constitution
Tope Folarin, the son of Nigerian immigrants and a 2004 graduate of Morehouse College, has won the Whiting Award for fiction. Folarin is among 10 writers, poets and playwrights whose Whiting Awards were announced Wednesday evening...Read More >
npr
The winners of this year's Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize is aimed at allowing emerging writers to focus full-time on their work—or to branch off in new directions…Read More >
los aNGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
When Tope Folarin won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story “Miracle” (Transition 109; 2012), critics were quick to call his “Africanness” into question…Read More >
New York TIMES
The novelist Tope Folarin is attentive to the ways in which mental disorder and the particular crises of diaspora can dovetail, and how communal silence and shame can magnify both…Read More >
EVENING STANDARD (UK)
From a Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing (Folarin is our new one to watch, FYI), this is a powerful first novel about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their struggle to fit in to American life… Read More >
the kojo nnamdi show
Top of my summer reading list is a local author called Tope Folarin and his new book is "A Particular Kind of Black Man"…Read More >
time
In A Particular Kind of Black Man, debut novelist Tope Folarin introduces readers to Tunde Akinola and his Nigeria-born parents in small-town Utah as they navigate an uncomfortable assimilation to American life…Read More >
nylon
This searing, powerful novel is a stunning debut by Tope Folarin, offering a look into the disorienting life of a first-generation Nigerian-American…Read More >
washington post
Also on the list: the debut novels “Mostly Dead Things” by Kristen Arnett (“Just look at the cover. Flamingo!”) and “A Particular Kind of Black Man” by fellow D.C.-based author Tope Folarin…Read More >
new york times
When Tope Folarin, who was born in Utah to Nigerian parents, won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013, there was some controversy over whether he qualified as an African writer…Read More >
bookriot
Tunde, a Nigerian boy, and his parents, struggle to adapt to their new Midwestern home, until one day Tunde’s schizophrenic mother snaps and runs off with him back to their home country…Read More >
culturewhisper
In his compelling debut novel, Tope Folarin combines a classic immigrant narrative with a setting where the American dream seems out of reach: rural Utah…
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washington post
There was a time when Tope Folarin came almost daily to Politics and Prose not to sip iced lattes, as he’s doing on this recent Sunday afternoon, but to learn his craft by reckoning with language…Read More >
the guardian
The 2013 Caine prize winner Tope Folarin has been shortlisted for the £10,000 award for a second time for his short story Genesis, about a boy coming…Read More >
the guardian
Africa39: how we chose the writers for Port Harcourt World Book Capital 2014 As Port Harcourt prepares to become the World Book Capital 2014, Margaret Busby describes how a panel of judges selected…Read More >
pri
This year's Caine Prize for African Writing has been awarded to a Nigerian-American, Tope Folarin, for his short story, a "Miracle."…Read More >
the guardian
"I'm elated. I'm a writer situated in the Nigerian disapora, and the Caine prize means a lot – it feels like I'm connected to a long tradition of African writers…Read More >