Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead was born in 1969 and grew up in New York, where he still lives today. After graduating from Harvard, he began working for the Village Voice. His articles and essays have been published in various publications: the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta.
He has written nine novels, which have won numerous awards. The Subway (Psychogios, 2018) was honoured with the 2016 US National Book Award, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the 2017 Carnegie Medal and the 2017 Indies Choice Book Award. The book The Nickel Boys (Ikaros, 2020) won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize and the 2019 Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the 2019 US National Book Award, and was named one of the ten most important novels of the decade by TIME magazine. His novel *A Mess in Harlem* (Ikaros, 2022) topped the New York Times bestseller list, was named one of the 100 most important books of the year by TIME magazine, and featured on Barack Obama’s list of favourite books for 2021.