Three finalists shortlisted for Nigeria LNG sponsored literature prize emerge.

This declaration takes after an underlying shortlisting of eleven which was discharged in July. The three shortlisted sections, in sequential request, are Born on a Tuesday (Elnathan John), Night Dancer (Chika Unigwe) and Season of Crimson Blossoms (Abubakar Adam Ibrahim).

As per the Chairman of the Advisory Board, Professor Emeritus Ayo Banjo, the possible victor of the opposition will be reported at a World Press Conference in October, 2016.

Conceived on a Tuesday, distributed by Parresia Books, is an anecdote about contemporary northern Nigeria which has throughout the years experienced religious savagery and massacre as seen through the eyes of a young fellow. Conceived on a Tuesday is Elnathan John's first novel. John is an essayist, legal advisor anda Civitella Ranieri Fellow. He has additionally been shortlisted twice by the Caine Prize for African Writing.

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Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer,published by Jonathan Cape, focusses on the youthful hero's quest for character and her resulting reappraisal of her mom's qualities. Chika Unigwe is an essayist and the 2012 victor of The Nigeria Prize for Literature, with her novel On Black Sisters Street. Unigwe sits on the Board of Trustees of skillet African scholarly activity Writivism, and was as of late delegated a judge for the Manbooker Prize, 2017.

Period of Crimson Blossoms is a novel set in traditionalist northern Nigeria. It focusses on uncommon relationships between characters, and in addition ambiguities in religion and governmental issues. Distributed by Cassava Republic Press, Season of Crimson Blossoms is Ibrahim's presentation novel. Ibrahim has won the BBC African Performance Prize and the Amatu Braide Prize for Prose. He is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013) and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015).

The Chairman of the Panel of Judges is Prof. Dan Izevbaye, awell-regarded abstract faultfinder and teacher of Literature in English.Prof. Izevbaye has been going to instructor at the University of Kent at Canterbury, going to educator at University of Pennsylvania, University of Benin, and University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He has been outer analyst or educational programs advisor at University of the West Indies.

Different judges are Asabe Usman Kabir, educator of Oral and African Literatures at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and Isidore Diala, first victor of The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism and teacher of African writing in the Department of English, Imo State University, Owerri.