Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Nnedi lives in Illinois with her daughter Anyaugo and family. Nnedi's books are inspired by her Nigerian heritage and her many trips there. She was also a nominee for the NAACP Imagine Award, among others. She has also been a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, Tiptree Award, a British Science Fiction Association Award (Best Novel) and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. She has been the winner of many more awards for her short stories and young adult books, including the Wole Soyinka Africa Prize for Literature, the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, the Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature, the Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism Short Story Contest, and the Strange Horizons Readers Choice Award for Nonfiction. Her first novel written for the adult market, Who Fears Death, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. She holds a PhD in English and is an associate professor of creative writing, currently teaching at the University at Buffalo. Nnedi Okorafor was born in the United States to two Igbo (Nigerian) immigrant parents.
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