Amaworo Wilson
JJ Amaworo Wilson is a German-born Anglo-American-Nigerian novelist and non-fiction writer. He grew up in the UK and has lived in eleven countries.
His novel Damnificados won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction, the Independent Publishers Book Award, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and the Prix Révélation de Traduction (French edition), and was on Oprah's Top 10 Books to Read Now list. The novel has been translated into several languages. His second novel is Nazaré (PM Press, 2021).
Amaworo Wilson also writes books about language and language learning. For two of these books he was honored at Buckingham Palace in 2008 and 2011.
He is the writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University. He also teaches on Stonecoast's MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine, and is the co-chair of Southwest Word Fiesta. Amaworo Wilson lives in Silver City, New Mexico, USA.
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