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Who Fears Death, in stores.
-Winner of the World Fantasy Award
-Winner of the Kindred Award
-Winner of the RT Times Reviewers Choice Award
-A Nebula Award nominee
-A Tiptree Honor Book
-A Publishers Weekly, a Amazon.com, and a Library School
Journal 2010 Best Book of the Year.
-A 2010
Amelia Bloomer Project List Book
-optioned
for a film by Kisha Cameron-Dingle, to be directed by
award-winning director Wanuri Kahiu
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Akata Witch, in stores April 2011.
-A Locus Award finalist
-An
Andre Norton Award nominee
-An
Amazon.com Best Book of 2011
-A
2011 YALSA Best Book of the Year
-A
Publishers Weekly Galley of the Day
-A Junior Library Guild Selection
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Zahrah the Windseeker,
in stores now.
-Winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in
Africa.
-Winner of the 2012 Black Excellence Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Literature (Fiction)
-Shortlisted for the Parallax, Kindred, and
Locus Awards. Currently up for the 2008 Teen
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The Nigerian
edition of Zahrah the Windseeker,
published by Kachifo LTD.
This edition includes several lovely illustrations. Now
available for purchase
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The Shadow Speaker,
in stores now.
-Winner of the Parallax Award
-An NAACP Image Award Nominee
-A Tiptree Honor Book
-A Winter 2007/2008 Booksense Pick
-Finalist for the Essence Literary Award
-Finalist for the Andre Norton Award
-Finalist for The Golden Duck Award
-A 2008
Amelia Bloomer Project List Book
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Long Juju Man,
winner of the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa.
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Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine, written
by Nnedi Okorafor, forthcoming from Disney in 2012
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FRESH CHATTER...
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o Nnedi's four part series titles "African Sunrise"
(started as "The
Book of Phoenix" will be published in
Subterranean Magazine with art by illustrator Eric
Battle.
o Nnedi has joined the Warner Brothers/DC Comics family.
Her story will appear in Vertigo's one shot anthology
titled Mystery in Space with art by Michael
Kaluta
o Some necessary words: "Lovecraft’s
racism & The World Fantasy Award statuette, with comments
from China Miéville."
o Who Fears Death has won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for
Best Novel!
o Who
Fears Death has been optioned for a film by
producer Kisha Cameron-Dingle, to be directed by Wanuri
Kahiu
o Read Nnedi's Essay,
My Response to District 419...I mean District 9 here.
o Read Nnedi's Essay,
Is Africa Ready for Science Fiction?, on the
Nebula Awards Blog.
o Read Nnedi's short story,
“From the Lost
Diary of Treefrog7”, in
Clarksworld
Magazine
Appearances:
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The League of Black Women's Conference, Destin, FL
May 8-12
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
May 16
Kingshill School, US Virgin Islands
May 30-June 3rd
See also:
Nnedi's
Facebook page
Nnedi's
Twitter feed
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