His agent also swears that if he publishes his Nigeria satire collection, it will interfer with his chances of being established globally as a serious novelist. Now that he is in between books, nobody seems to want to publish his collection of short stories. His novel Born On a Tuesday was published in Nigeria (in 2015), the UK and the US (in 2016) and will be available in German in 2017. He hopes to never repeat that foolish mistake. In 2008, after being lied to by friends and admirers about the quality of his work, he hastily self-published an embarrassing collection of short stories which has thankfully gone out of print. It is kind of like being a best man at a wedding - you get to attend the ceremony but you can get drunk, sneak off and hook up without anyone noticing because after all, you are not the groom.
He has been shortlisted and longlisted for a few other prizes, but he is content with his position as a serial finalist.
This record was almost disrupted by the Caine Prize when they accidentally allowed his story on the shortlist in 2013 and again in 2015. Except you are The New Yorker, he considers it violence of unimaginable proportions to ask him to write for free. He writes weekly political satire for the Nigerian newspaper Daily Trust on Sunday (and any other publication that PAYS him). His works have appeared in Hazlitt, Per Contra, Le Monde Diplomatique, FT and the Caine Prize for African Writing anthology 2013, 2014, 20. He has been shortlisted and longlisted for a few other prizes, but Elnathan is a writer and lawyer living in spaces between in Nigeria and Germany. Elnathan is a writer and lawyer living in spaces between in Nigeria and Germany.
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