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Biographical note
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in South East London. His first novel, OPEN WATER, won the Costa First Novel Award and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was a number-one Times bestseller. It was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Waterstones Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. He was selected as a National Book Foundation '5 under 35' honoree by Brit Bennett.<b>Nelson writes about closeness, with family, with lovers, with art, as careful, essential labour </b>
- Raven Leilani, author of Luster,
<b>A mesmerising Peckham love story</b>
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<b>An affecting meditation on the migrant experience</b>
Guardian
<b>Caleb Azumah Nelson's writing is touching, heartfelt, and musically rich</b>
- Diana Evans,
<b>Small Worlds is an emotionally astute novel that cements this 29-year-old south London author as one of the UK's best. </b>
New Statesman
<b>SMALL WORLDS is a miracle of observation, of attention and attunement. Caleb Azumah Nelson writes prose that is unmatched in its musicality and sensitivity. A gorgeous, rhapsodic, wise novel</b>
- KATIE KITAMURA, author of INTIMACIES,
<b>In his beautiful new novel Nelson summons the sounds of Black Youth, love and discovery to the page. A celebration of the heart</b>
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS and FRIDAY BLACK,
Caleb Azumah Nelson's <i>Open Water</i> was a slim masterpiece. His second novel, <i>Small Worlds</i> is a similarly lapidary coming-of-age story set over three years in the life of an extraordinary young man.
Observer
<b>A gentle reflection on self-discovery</b>
Vogue, 2023 Spring Highlights
<b>If you haven't had a chance to read Caleb Azumah Nelson's debut, <i>Open Water,</i> about a gorgeous love affair in modern-day London, then please do; it'll keep you occupied until his new release is out on 11 May, which is about fathers and sons, the power of dance and how one man can create a life he loves</b>
Stylist, Big Fiction for 2023