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Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta is the author of Happiness, Like Water and most recently, Under the Udala Trees. Her honors include an O. Henry Prize and finalist selections for the International DUBLIN Literary Award, the NAACP Image Award in Fiction, and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, among others. She has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2017, Okparanta was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, and in 2018, she was selected to serve as a fiction judge for the U.S. National Book Awards.


Chinelo Okparanta: This is Not
a Love Story

Recalling the Lingering Power of a First Crush
February 14, 2020  By Chinelo Okparanta
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