Ifeoma Okoye has written three adult novels (published by Longman), two teenage novels (Macmillan) and eight children's books. She received the Best Fiction of the Year Award from the Association of Nigerian Authors for Men Without Ears in 1985. (Longman 1984). In 1983 she received several prizes from the National Council for Arts and Culture of Nigeria for her first adult novel Behind the Clouds (Longman 1982 and her teenage novel Village Boy (Macmillan 1978).
She also won a literary prize at the Ife International Book Fair in 1985 for her children's book Only Bread for Eze (Fourth Dimension 1980). She was the African Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition, 1999. Three of her children's books have been translated into Swahili. Her work has been published in the Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing (1993) and in Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing (Heinemann 1999).
Ms Okoye is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Aston University, Birmingham (UK). She was until August 2000 a Senior Lecturer in English at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (Nigeria). She and her husband, the prolific writer and frontline civil rights activist Mokwugo Okoye, have five children. Ifeoma Okoye lives in Enugu, Nigeria where she is currently working on a book project about the problems of widows in Nigeria. |
