Black Bear‘s management arm has signed author, writer, photographer and filmmaker Caleb Azumah Nelson for representation. He is best known for his debut novel “Open Water,” which the BBC is adapting into a series, with Nelson set to write and direct.
Published in 2021, “Open Water” has earned widespread acclaim, including the Costa First Novel Award in 2021, a longlisting for the Desmond Elliot and Gordon Burn prizes, and shortlisting for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. The novel was named the Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Month in February 2021 and Waterstones Paperback of
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