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Nnedi Okorafor was born on April 8, 1974 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a graduate of Clarion Writers Workshop in Lansing, Michigan and earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois. Currently she is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Her awards include a 2001 Hurston-Wright literary award for her story Amphibious Green, The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa for Zahrah the Windseeker, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award for The Shadow Speaker, the 2007-08 winner of the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa for Long Juju Man, the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Who Fears Death, and her science fiction novella Binti won the 2016 Nebula Award (Best Novella) and the 2016 Hugo Awards for Best Novella. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Binti… (more)
Binti 2,685 copies, 224 reviews
Akata Witch 2,112 copies, 115 reviews
Who Fears Death 2,110 copies, 102 reviews
Binti: Home 1,151 copies, 86 reviews
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Lagoon 883 copies, 42 reviews
Akata Warrior 729 copies, 25 reviews
Remote Control 592 copies, 47 reviews
The Book of Phoenix 544 copies, 35 reviews
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Kabu Kabu 275 copies, 12 reviews
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Black Panther: Long Live the King 107 copies, 10 reviews
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Hello, Moto 77 copies, 8 reviews
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Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning novelist of Nigerian descent known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. In a profile of Nnedi’s work titled “Weapons of Mass Creation”, The New York Times called Nnedi’s imagination “stunning”. Nnedi holds a PhD in English.
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