Elnathan John

Elnathan John is a Nigerian lawyer who quit his job in 2012 to write full-time. In 2013, he was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for his story “Bayan Layi” and was again named a finalist in 2015. He is a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, writes a satiric column about politics and life for a Nigerian weekly newspaper, and has had work published in Per Contra, Financial Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, Chimurenga’s Chronic, Hazlitt, and the Evergreen Review. He lives in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja