Nnedi Okorafor (nnedi.com) is the first black woman to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. She has also received Hugo and Nebula Awards. Born in the United States to two Igbo (Nigerian) immigrant parents, and raised in both countries, she holds a Ph.D in English and is a professor at SUNY Buffalo. She divides her time between Buffalo and the suburbs of Chicago, where she lives with her daughter Anyaugo (Anya). Nnedi's work has been published both in Africa and the United States, and ranges from early chapter books to adult short stories and longer fiction.
One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy and Young Adult Books of
All Time!
A Nebula Award nominee
"The book puts a unique, inclusive spin on the timeless tale of the
misfit chosen to save the world."
—Time Magazine
“Okorafor’s novels tend to reflect both her West-African heritage
and American experiences, but in this series she creates a
stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian
folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable
tropes of Western fantasy novels.”
—Time Magazine
"There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than
in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." —Ursula K. Le
Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea
“The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have
ever read!” —Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award
finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak
"I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of
it—until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi
Okorafor." —Whoopi Goldberg
"Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of
color, life, and death. Nnedi Okorafor's work is
wonderful!" —Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author
of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
"Jam-packed with mythological wonders." —Rick Riordan, #1
New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the
Olympians series
"Okorafor's imagination is stunning." —The New York Times Book
Review
"A marvelous and uplifting read, heartwarming in its portrayal of
true friendship, heartbreaking in its portrayal of headstrong youth
and the perils of pride." —Cory Doctorow, award-winning author
of Little Brother
"Fresh, original, and smart. We need more writers like
her." —Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind
"Nnedi Okorafor is opening doors into strange and beautiful new
worlds. Her heroes are beguiling, her magic firmly rooted in real
places and real things. Rich, mysterious, and convincing, Akata
Witch takes fantasy in a haunting new direction." —Jonathan
Stroud, New York Times bestselling author of The Bartimaeus
Trilogy
"The voice of Nnedi Okorafor does not obey the rules of distance,
time, or place. Hers is the voice that fuses matter and
imagination. She shows us just how close we are to that alternate
reality." —Tchidi Chikere, Nigerian award-winning film
director and screenwriter
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