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Nnedi Okorafor
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born
April 08, 1974
gender
female
place of birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States
website
genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Young Adult
influences
Ben Okri, Hayao Miyazaki , Octavia Butler, Philip Pullman, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Tove Jannson, Salman Rushdie
member since
August 2008
about this author
Nnedi Okorafor (formerly Okorafor-Mbachu) is the author of the novels Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature) and The Shadow Speaker (an NAACP Image Award Nominee and a Tiptree Honor Book).
Her forthcoming YA novel, Sunny and the Leopard People (Penguin Books), is scheduled for release in 2010. Her forthcoming adult novel, Who Fears Death (DAW Books), is also scheduled for release in 2010.
Her forthcoming book for children, Long Juju Man, is the winner of the Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa.
She was also a finalist for the Andre Norton Award (The Shadow Speaker), the Essence Magazine Literary Award (The Shadow Speaker), the Kindred and Parallax Awards (Zahrah) and the ...more
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Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.88 — 76 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.68 — 85 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 by Algis Budrys , Frank Frazetta , Drew Morby , Ray Roberts , David D. Levine , Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads author) , L. Ron Hubbard , Ari Goelman more... avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2002 |
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Long Juju Man by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2010 |
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Spider the Artist (Literature & Fiction)
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an excerpt from Nnedi's science fiction short story "Spider the Artist", which appears in Seeds of Change (an anthology edited by John Joseph Adams, August 2008). Learn more at http://www.seedsanthology.com
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Octavia E. Butler
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Aya: The Secrets Come Out: Volume Three (Hardcover) by Marguerite Abouet |
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Moomin Book Four: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip (Hardcover) by Tove Jansson |
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Who Fears Death (Hardcover) by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads author) |
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Parasyte, Volume 4 (Paperback) by Hitoshi Iwaaki |
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The Shadow Speaker
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