Dates: Saturday 23 November
Doors open: 3.30pm - 5pm
Place: The Gig Space, Level 5
Access: There is step-free access via a lift
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer, photographer and filmmaker, living in South East London.
Caleb was was selected by the Observer as one of the '10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021', and his debut novel OPEN WATER was chosen by the Booksellers Association as its Fiction Book of the Month for February 2021.
OPEN WATER has since been longlisted for the Desmond Elliot prize and the Gordon Burn prize, shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021, and won the Costa First Novel Award 2021. In 2022 it was selected as Waterstones Paperback of the Month and longlisted for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize.
Caleb's second novel, SMALL WORLDS has received high praise, with Katie Kitamura calling Caleb’s prose “unmatched in its musicality and sensitivity” and Candice Carty Williams stating that it is “Beautiful, unforgettable and all-consuming”.
