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Uduak-Abasi Ekong

Uduak-Abasi Ekong is a Manchester-based Nigerian writer. Her novel, A Kind of Resurrection, won the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize, was runner-up for the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize Discoveries Award. She was a 2026 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellow and an alumna of Faber Academy. Instagram bio: @uduaque_ 

Articles by Uduak-Abasi Ekong

The Prodigal Father by Uduak-Abasi Ekong
Read the winning story from this year's Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize, a piece of fiction set in Nigeria and written by Uduak-Abasi Ekong. One day, a mysterious man arrives at a family's door, claiming to be their father returning after long years of absence. But there is great unease about him in the mind of one of his children.
Bloomsbury Drama
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