Ibi Aanu Zoboi is a Haitian-American author of young adult fiction.
11 Facts About Ibi Zoboi
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Ibi Zoboi is best known for her young adult novel American Street, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult's Literature in 2017.
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The move was hard on Ibi Zoboi, who found Brooklyn to be lonely, as her family was in Haiti and her mother worked.
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Ibi Zoboi cites the move from Haiti to New York as one that defined her.
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Four years later, Ibi Zoboi returned to Haiti for a visit with her mother.
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Ibi Zoboi stayed in Haiti with relatives for three months while her mother worked to get her back.
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Ibi Zoboi turned to poetry and writing as a way for her to be seen.
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Ibi Zoboi began her writing career as an investigative reporter and worked among others with Octavia Butler.
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Ibi Zoboi is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop as well as a winner of the 2011 Gulliver Travel Grant.
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In 2018, Ibi Zoboi received the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature from the Library of Congress.
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Ibi Zoboi's 2018 novel Pride is a re-telling of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, set in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.