New York Times bestselling author and artistAkwaeke Emezi has signed with Verve. Emezi’s firstnovel Freshwateris currently in development to be adapted as an FX series with Emezi writing and executive producing alongside Verve client Tamara P.
Carter (P-Valley,The Leftovers). Published in 2018, the novel won the 2019 Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree) and the Nommo Award.
Freshwater was also shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and a Lambda Literary Award.
Emezi's bestselling sophomore adult novel The Death of Vivek Oji was published last year fromRiverhead Books as part of lucrative two-book deal with the.
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