{"id":24191,"date":"2025-08-28T23:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenigeriaprizes.org\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=24191"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:21:45","slug":"nikki-may","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.thenigeriaprizes.org\/?profile=nikki-may","title":{"rendered":"Nikki May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24183\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nikki-May-59-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nikki-May-59-2.jpg 640w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nikki-May-59-2-300x259.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nikki-May-59-2-580x500.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Born in Bristol and raised in Lagos (Corona School, Queens College, University of Lagos),\u202f<\/span>Nikki May <span data-contrast=\"none\">is Anglo-Nigerian and loves <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">both<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> her homes fiercely.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Her critically acclaimed debut novel\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wahala<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202fwon the Comedy Women In Print New Voice Prize<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Award and the\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Fingerprint Debut of the Year Award<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, and longlisted for the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> It\u2019s being turned into a major BBC TV drama series.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">This Motherless Land<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"> is her second novel. In the USA, it was a Read with Jenna book and was shortlisted for the 2025 Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place. It is currently being adapted for TV.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nikki lives in Dorset with her husband and way too many books. She visits her father in Nigeria as often as she can. 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