Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta was born in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria. She was one of Granta’s New Voices for 2012 and her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Her story ‘America’ was short-listed for the Caine Prize in African Writing. She is a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for her debut short story collection, Happiness, Like Water (Granta). Her debut novel will be published by Granta in 2015.
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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Notes from Uzbekistan
Chinelo Okparanta
They come to us at Independence Square, shadow-like and all whispers. They have selected a...
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Interview: Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted to be sure to approach their resistance to Nnenna’s homosexuality from a practical perspective – one of fear, rather than one of hate.’
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
New Voices: Runs Girl
Chinelo Okparanta
The year Mama fell sick was the year Njideka confessed to me that she was...
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America
Chinelo Okparanta
‘It is a reluctant kind of disregard that stems from a feeling of shame’