Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Born in the United States to two Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is 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’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel), Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013), Akata Witch (an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), and The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner).
Her latest works include her novel The Book of Phoenix (an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist), her Binti Trilogy (the first of which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella) and her children’s book Chicken in the Kitchen (winner of an Africana Book Award). The final installment of the Binti Trilogy (titled The Night Masquerade) will be released in September and the sequel to Akata Witch (title Akata Warrior) is due out in October. Nnedi is a Full Professor at the University at Buffalo, New York (SUNY).
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2021 Remote Control
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2020 Ikenga
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2019 Binti: The Complete Trilogy (Binti)
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2018 Binti: The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)
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2017 Akata Warrior (Akata Witch, #2)
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2017 Binti: Home (Binti, #2)
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2015 Binti (Binti, #1)
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2015 The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death, #2)
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2014 Lagoon
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2013 Kabu Kabu
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2011 Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1)
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2010 Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)
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2009 Long Juju Man
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2007 The Shadow Speaker
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2005 Zahrah the Windseeker
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