and articles "No individual 'fathered' modern African literature", The Guardian, 2 December 2009. "Ants of Accra", Granta 112, 2 September 2010. "Nii Ayikwei Parkes. My London: Blythe Hill Fields", The Financial Times, 8 August 2014. "The Responsibility of Being Other", Writivism, 4 July 2017. Awards and recognition 2003: Farrago Best Overall Poetry Performance Award 2004: Farrago Best Overall Poetry Performance Award 2007: Ghana's National ACRAG award for poetry and literary advocacy 2009: Finalist for the UK YCE Publishing Award 2010: Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize (for Tail of the Blue Bird) 2012: USBBY Outstanding International Books List (for The Parade, as K.P. Kojo) 2014: Prix Baudelaire, Prix Mahogany, and Prix Laure Bataillon (for Notre Quelque Part) 2020: Poetry Book Society Recommendation for The Geez References External links Nii Parkes website "The Team", flipped eye publishing. "D. Herrle Tea Interviews - Nii Parkes", SubtleTea.com, 2003. Ben JK Anim-Antwi (Kwesi), "Profile: Nii Ayikwei Parkes", Me Firi Ghana, 12 April 2012. Will Barrett, "Where It Begins: an interview with Nii Ayikwei Parkes", Poetry School. "Nii Ayikwei Parkes" (interview), African Writing Online. 1974 births 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English poets 20th-century Ghanaian poets 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British poets 21st-century English male writers Alumni of Achimota School Black British writers British male poets British publishers (people) English male novelists Ga-Adangbe people Ghanaian male poets Ghanaian novelists Living people People of Sierra Leone Creole descent