Template:Did you know nominations/Season of Crimson Blossoms


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:41, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Season of Crimson Blossoms

 * ... that the winner of the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature thought there would be a fatwa on him after release of his taboo-breaching, romance debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms, set in deeply Muslim conservative Northern Nigeria? Source: NYT
 * ALT1:... that taboo-breaching debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms ended up winning Africa's richest literary award instead of attracting the severe backlash author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim anticipated? Source:NYT again
 * Comment: Started in November in draft, moved to mainspace on 8 January.
 * Comment: Started in November in draft, moved to mainspace on 8 January.

Created by Ammarpad (talk). Self-nominated at 20:56, 13 January 2018 (UTC).


 * Thanks I also added more content in review and synopsis sections and a whole new section about writing the book. You can have a look please. –Ammarpad (talk) 07:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I have had a look and made a few more minor improvements. I think that the article still fulfills the DYK criteria, as I detailed above, and is good to go. Michael Barera (talk) 17:04, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I have had a look and made a few more minor improvements. I think that the article still fulfills the DYK criteria, as I detailed above, and is good to go. Michael Barera (talk) 17:04, 16 January 2018 (UTC)