Chikodili Emelumadu Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Chikodili Emelumadu Biography

Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and raised in Awka, Nigeria. A product of not one but two Nigerian boarding schools, she went on to attend Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her work has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award (2015), a Nommo Award (2020), and the Caine Prize for African Literature (2017, 2020), and Dazzling won the inaugural Curtis Brown First Novel Prize for a work in progress. She lives in Newhaven, East Sussex, England.

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