The Fisherman’s Dream

Hemley Boum

Alison Anderson

Key selling points

• The Fisherman’s Dream won the Grand Prix Afrique 2025 and the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2025
• Hemley Boum is the winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique Noire, the Prix Kourouma, and the Prix Ivoire, among many others. 
• Strong media potential in environmental, diaspora, and international-literature spaces 
• Full media campaign to include pre-pub reviews, features, excerpts, and interviews
• Translation prizes submission & festival pitching
• Bookseller campaign with proofs and POS materials
• influencer and Bookstagram campaign highlighting diaspora and environment themes

Target readership 

• For readers who enjoyed Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste, Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop, Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou, The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami, and We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo