British-born Nigerian writer, TADE THOMPSON has won the Arthur C Clarke award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction novels at a ceremony in Foyles bookshop in London.

THOMPSON’s novel, Rosewater, an alien invasion novel set in a future Africa, was submitted alongside 124 other novels, the highest number ever submitted for the prize, to emerge as the winner.

Rosewater bested five other books including including AHMED SAADAWI’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, SUE BURKE’s Semiosis, YOON HA LEE’s Revenant Gun, SIMON STÅLENHAG’s illustrated novel, The Electric State and ALIYA WHITELEY’s The Loosening Skin.

The award came with a trophy and the £2,019 prize.