Caleb Azumah Nelson

Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer, living in South East London. He was selected by The Observer as one of the ’10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021′, and his debut novel Open Water won the Costa prize for a first book in 2021 and was chosen by the Booksellers Association as its Fiction Book of the Month for February 2021. His writing has been published in Litro and he was recently shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize and won the People’s Choice prize. He was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020 for his story Pray. A second novel is forthcoming.