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Nnedi Okorafor Turns 42 Today!

Born April 8, 1974 (age 42) Cincinnati, Ohio

Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction.

Okorafor received a 2001 Hurston-Wright literary award[1] for her story "Amphibious Green." She then published two acclaimed books for young adults, The Shadow Speaker (Hyperion/Disney Book Group) and Zahrah the Windseeker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Zahrah won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. It was also shortlisted for the 2005 Carl Brandon Parallax and Kindred Awards and a finalist for the Garden State Teen Book Award and the Golden Duck Award. The Shadow Speaker was a winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book,[2] a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, the Andre Norton Award and the Golden Duck Award and an NAACP Image Award nominee. Okorafor's children's book Long Juju Man was the 2007–08 winner of the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa.[3]

Okorafor's first adult novel, Who Fears Death (DAW/Penguin Books), won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel,[4] was a 2011 Tiptree Honor Book and was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award.[5] In 2011 she returned to young adult with Akata Witch (Viking/Penguin), which was a Junior Library Guild Selection, and nominated for the Andre Norton Award. It was also on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list honoring children's books with feminist themes.

Okorafor's short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines, including Dark Matter: Reading The Bones, Strange Horizons, Moondance magazine, and Writers of the Future Volume XVIII. A collection of her stories, titled Kabu Kabu, was published by Prime Books in 2013. It includes the titular piece, co-authored by Alan Dean Foster, and six other previously unpublished short stories, as well as 14 stories that had been previously published in other venues since 2001, and a foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.

In 2009 Okorafor donated her archive to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Northern Illinois University Library.

Gary K. Wolfe wrote of her work: "Okorafor’s genius has been to find the iconic images and traditions of African culture, mostly Nigerian and often Igbo, and tweak them just enough to become a seamless part of her vocabulary of fantastika."

In February 2014, it was announced that Okorafor would be Young Adult Author special Guest of Honor at Detcon 1, the 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention; Detcon1 was putting special emphasis on YA science fiction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnedi_Okorafor

hbd..... who else dosen't know this woman.?



she's hot though?? did u just say 42,, looks like she's in her early 30's.

Nwanne udo dili gi.















Jeez.am I d 2nd to comment?............thank God for afternoon lectures today.sign of winning bet

HBD ma

I admire writers a lot! Happy birthday

seriously I dunno her

Y d nose com BIG like dis?













abi na my eye zoom am


















Anyway hbd to her






































Ma go kontinu the ultimate search for fuel on the streets of Ikeja

DAMN! SHE'S HAWT... YOU DONT SEE MANY MILFs AROUND.

OH, I WOULD KILL FOR A LADY WITH GLASSES.

But the tattoo

Happy birthday!

vanity upon vanity...

Hbd

Who she epp?

Hbd

I love intelligent women.

No doubt Igbos have them in abundance.

aNAIJAFAN:
Y d nose com BIG like dis?













abi na my eye zoom am


















Anyway hbd to her






































Ma go kontinu the ultimate search for fuel on the streets of Ikeja

wetin u don achieve with ur pointed nose, mumu

[color=#8C001A]Oh Zahrah, the windseeker

My fave
Very good novel![/color]

Who is she? She dey sell fuel? I need fuel

Happy birthday sis

Crap writer. Always writing winshcraft book. Who she hep ?

Gentleveks:
Who is she? She dey sell fuel? I need fuel

Only Lalasticlala can push faces of unpopular birthday celebrants to front page.

Happy birthday! I will be greater than you one day by God's grace

Igbo Kwenu .. Please Hit Like For This Our Daughter Of Zion On Her Birthday !!!

Hbd

Name checkers where una dey.

aalangel:
Only Lalasticlala can push faces of unpopular birthday celebrants to front page.

Dem don pay am na . Nairaland must make money too.

Happy Birthday, super Nnedi! One of my greatest sources of inspiration. An absolutely wonderful hard worker! More grace, more ink, more time, space and silence.