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Tomi Adeyemi
Homepage
https://tomiadeyemi.com
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1993-08-01,USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Tomi Adeyemi (born August 1, 1993) is a Nigerian-American writer and creative writing coach. She is best known for her novel Children of Blood and Bone, the first in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, which debuted #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers List, and won the 2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, the 2019 Waterstones Book Prize, and the 2019 Hugo Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. In 2019, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and in 2020, she was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2020 in the "Pioneers" category. In 2022, Paramount Pictures was developing Children of Blood and Bone into a major motion picture with Gina Prince-Bythewood attached to direct. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tomi Adeyemi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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