Nigerian writer Abi Daré has been named the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize winner.
The law graduate from the University of Wolverhampton won the first prize for her book And So I Roar, which is a follow-up to her best-selling first book, The Girl with the Louding Voice.
And So I Roar explores how environmental collapse affects the lives of Nigerian rural women and girls.
Daré, who lives in Essex, stated: “As a Black British-Nigerian woman, receiving this prize is a reminder that we do not need to wait for permission to step into global conversations or to contort our stories to fit a certain lens.”
