Dear Senthuran
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2023}}
{{Short description|2021 memoir by Akwaeke Emezi}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
| author = Akwaeke Emezi
| language = English
| country = Nigeria
| image = File:Dear Senthuran.jpg
| caption = First edition (US)
| genre = Memoir
| publisher = Riverhead Books (US)
Faber & Faber (UK)
| preceded_by = The Death of Vivek Oji
| isbn = 9780593329191
| media_type = Print
| pub_date = June 8, 2021
| publisher2 =
| website = {{Official website|https://www.akwaeke.com/dear-senthuran}}
}}
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir is a 2021 memoir written by Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi. It was first published in 2021 by Riverhead Books in the United States and Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom.{{Cite web|last=Habila|first=Helon|author-link=Helon Habila|date=July 29, 2021|title=Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi review – a series of fights|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/29/dear-senthuran-a-black-spirit-memoir-by-akwaeke-emezi-review-a-series-of-fights|url-status=live|access-date=January 14, 2022|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729065144/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/29/dear-senthuran-a-black-spirit-memoir-by-akwaeke-emezi-review-a-series-of-fights |archive-date=2021-07-29 }}{{cite web|url=https://thenativemag.com/akwaeke-emezi-dear-senthuran-black-spirit-memoir/|title=AKWAEKE EMEZI PUBLISHES THEIR MEMOIR, DEAR SENTHURAN: A BLACK SPIRIT MEMOIR|first=Adewojumi|last=Aderemi|date=June 10, 2021|website=The Native|access-date=January 14, 2022}}{{cite news|title=Akwaeke Emezi's memoir is a healing ritual for the displaced|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/dear-senthuran-memoir-akwaeke-emezi/2021/06/19/832a9276-cf96-11eb-a7f1-52b8870bef7c_story.html|first=Keishel|last=Williams|newspaper=Washington Post|date=June 19, 2021|access-date=January 14, 2022}}
In 2022, it won the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Stonewall Book Award.{{Cite web |title=Stonewall Book Awards List {{!}} Rainbow Roundtable |url=https://www.ala.org/rrt/award/stonewall/honored#2022 |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=www.ala.org |language=en}}