Chinelo okparanta biography

  • About the author Chinelo Okparanta was.
  • Chinelo Okparanta (born 1981) is a Nigerian-American novelist and short-story writer.
  • Born and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Chinelo Okparanta received her BS from Pennsylvania State University, her MA from Rutgers University.

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    About Chinelo

    Born and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Chinelo Okparanta received her BS from Pennsylvania State University, her MA from Rutgers University, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A Colgate University Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Fiction as well as a recipient of the University of Iowa's Provost's Postgraduate Fellowship in Fiction, Okparanta was nominated for a US Artists Fellowship in 2012. She has been awarded additional fellowships, faculty appointments, and visiting professorships at Columbia University, Purdue University, Middlebury College (Bread Loaf's John Gardner Fellow in Fiction), Howard University (Hurston/Wright Foundation Summer Writing kurs Fiction Faculty), City College of New York, and the University of Houston (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Fiction). She has been awarded residencies by the Jentel Foundation, the Hermitage Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Lannan Foundation (Marfa), as well

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    Born and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Chinelo Okparanta received her BS from Pennsylvania State University, her MA from Rutgers University, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has been awarded residencies by the Jentel Foundation and the Hermitage Foundation along with many others. She is a winner of a 2014 Lambda Literary Award, a 2016 Lambda Literary Award, the 2016 Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award in Fiction, the 2016 Inaugural Betty Berzon framträdande Writer Award from the Publishing Triangle, and a 2014 O. Henry Prize. Her debut short story collection, Happiness, Like Water, was cited as an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book Review and was named on the list of The Guardian’s Best African Fiction of 2013. She has published work in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, the Kenyon Review, AGNI, and other venues, and was named one of Granta’s six New Voices for 2012. Under the Udala Trees is her first novel.

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    Chinelo Okparanta

    Under the Udala Trees
    4.03 avg rating — 13,752 ratings — published 2015 — 32 editions
    Happiness, Like Water
    4.02 avg rating — 1,753 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions
    Harry Sylvester Bird
    3.23 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions
    Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3
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    3.47 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
    Benji
    4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013
    LitMag: Issue 01
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    3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
    Blackass (Excerpt)
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    really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
    Racconti di due pianeti: Storie di cambiamento climatico e disuguaglianza in un mondo diviso
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    3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions
    9 Stories on the Magic of Cities
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    3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018
    Fairness
    4.25 avg rating &m
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