Ifeoma Okoye
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About
Writer best known for children's novels including The Village Boy and Eme Goes to School. In 1982, she published her first novel for adults, Behind the Clouds. She was the African Regional Winner for the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 1999.
Before Fame
She attended the University of Nigeria and Aston University in England.
Trivia
Her 1984 novel, Men Without Ears, won the Association of Nigerian Authors' Best Fiction of the Year Award.
Family Life
She is from Nigeria.
Associated With
She and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are both acclaimed Nigerian writers.
