The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Nigeria Prize for Literature. The prize has been awarded each year since 2004 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of Nigeria.
Winners, shortlists and longlists YearAwardAuthorTitleJudges 2024Winner The Road Does Not End Saleh Abdu Vicky Sylvester Igudia Osarobu Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo Olu Obafemi Ahmed Yerima Christopher OkemwaShortlist A Father's Pride Wish MakerLonglist Grandma and the Moon's Hidden Secret Mighty Mite and Golden Jewel Risi Recycle–The Dustbin Girl The Children at the IDP Camp The Magic Jalabiya The Third Side of a Coin Village Boy Bode's Birthday Party 2025Winner Sanya Saeedat Bolajoko Aliyu Stephen Mbanefo Ogene Olakunle KasumuShortlist The Road to the Country This Motherless LandLonglist An Unusual Grief Fine Dreams Leave My Bones in Saskatoon New York My Village Petrichor, The Scent of a New Beginning The Middle Daughter Water Baby When We Were Fireflies 2023 Obari Gomba Grit Drama 2022Romeo OriogunNomadPoetry2020/2021Cheluchi OnyemelukweThe Son of the House Prose2019Jude IdadaBoom BoomChildren's Literature 2018Soji ColeEmbersDrama 2017 Ikeogu Oke The Heresiad Poetry 2016 Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Season of Crimson Blossoms Prose 2015 Children's literature No winner 2014 Sam Ukala Iredi War Drama 2013 Tade Ipadeola The Sahara Testaments Poetry 2012 Chika Unigwe On Black Sisters Street Prose 2011 Adeleke Adeyemi The Missing Clock Children's literature 2010 Esiaba Irobi Cemetery Road Drama Posthumous2009 Poetry No winner 2008 Kaine Agary Yellow Yellow Prose 2007 Mabel Segun Readers' Theatre: Twelve Plays for Young People Children's literature Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo My Cousin Sammy Children's literature 2006 Ahmed Yerima Hard Ground Drama 2005 Gabriel Okara The Dreamer: His Vision Poetry Ezenwa Ohaeto Chants of Minstrel Poetry 2004 Prose No winner
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