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