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Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati. This week, climate fiction.

Yeah. Climate fiction. Writing novels isn't about winning prizes, but the existence of a prize can elevate a deserving book. It might even

boost an entire genre, which is why it was exciting to see the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize

announced in 2025. The winner of that award is my guest today. Abidare is a British Nigerian

novel and it was her second novel novel and so I Roar that

won the climate fiction prize last year. It is a sequel to Abby's bestselling novel, The Girl

with the Louding Voice. But climate change, she says, is something she came to by accident.

If you look at my storytelling as an axe, right,

and I'm sort of hitting at the arteries or the veins of research

around poverty and inequality and all the issues that I talk about in the book,

every time my axe hits the artery of the vein, climate change bled.

And it almost became almost impossible to

ignore. And So I Roar follows the character of a teenage girl named Aduni as she confronts

superstition, lack of education and impacts of climate change on the rural communities of Nigeria.

It's a gripping story, told over just a 24-hour period.

So it was a privilege to get Abbey to talk about her writing process, the role climate change

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