Nnedi Okorafor
— Note: Publications prior to 2010 were bylined Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu—
2024
She Who Knows • novel • DAW
awards:
• Locus Awards 2025 — novella — 9th place
2023
“Stones” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Sep 2023
awards:
• Locus Awards 2024 — short story — 6th place
Science Fiction Hall of Fame 2024 — creator — winner
2022
Akata Woman • novel • Penguin Random House/Viking
awards:
• Dragon Awards 2022 — YA/middle grade novel — nomination
• Lodestar Award 2023 — winner
2021
Remote Control • novella • Tordotcom
awards:
• Locus Awards 2022 — novella — 5th place
Noor • novel • DAW
awards:
• Locus Awards 2022 — sf novel — 5th place
After the Rain (by NO, adapted by John Jennings, illustrated by David Brame) • Abrams ComicArts/Megascope
awards:
• Locus Awards 2022 — illustrated and art book — 2nd place
“The Black Pages” • short fiction • Black Stars
awards:
• Locus Awards 2022 — novelette — 5th place
2019
LaGuardia (by written by NO, illustrated by Tana Ford, colors by James Devlin) • art book • Berger Books/Dark Horse
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2020 — graphic story — winner
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected • nonfiction • TED Books
awards:
• Locus Awards 2020 — nonfiction — 6th place
“Binti: Sacred Fire” • short fiction • Binti: The Complete Trilogy
awards:
• Locus Awards 2020 — novelette — 3rd place
2018
Black Panther: Long Live the King (issues 1-3) (by written by NO & Aaron Covington, illustrated by André Lima Araújo, Mario Del Pennino, Tana Ford) • Marvel
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2019 — graphic story — nomination
Binti: The Night Masquerade • novel • Tor.com
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2019 — novella — nomination
• British Fantasy Awards 2019 — novella — nomination
“Mother of Invention” • short fiction • Future Tense
awards:
• Locus Awards 2019 — short story — 10th place
2017
Binti: Home • novella • Tor.com
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2018 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2018 — novella — 2nd place
Akata Warrior • novel • Viking Books for Young Reader
awards:
• Lodestar Award 2018 — winner
• Locus Awards 2018 — young adult book — winner
2016
“Afrofuturist 419” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Nov 2016
awards:
• Locus Awards 2017 — short story — 10th place
2015
The Book of Phoenix • novel • Hodder & Stoughton
awards:
• Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 — shortlist
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2016 — finalist
• Kurd Lasswitz Preis 2018 — foreign novel — winner
citations:
Binti • short fiction • Tor.com
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2016 — novella — winner
• Nebula Awards 2016 — novella — winner
• British Fantasy Awards 2016 — novella — nomination
• British SF Association Awards 2016 — short story — nomination
• Locus Awards 2016 — novella — 3rd place
• Ignotus Awards 2019 — foreign short story — winner
citations:
“Binti”
anthologies:
2014
Lagoon • novel • Hodder & Stoughton
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2015 — novel — nomination
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2015 — honor list
• Locus Awards 2015 — sf novel — 7th place
• The Kitschies 2015 — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
citations:
2013
Kabu Kabu • collection • Prime Books
awards:
• Locus Awards 2014 — collection — 4th place
2011
Akata Witch • novel • Viking
awards:
• Andre Norton Award 2012 — finalist
• Locus Awards 2012 — young adult book — 3rd place
citations:
“Wahala”
anthologies:
“The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Mar 2011
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — novelette — 9th place
anthologies:
2010
Who Fears Death • novel • DAW
awards:
• Nebula Awards 2011 — novel — nomination
• World Fantasy Awards 2011 — novel — winner
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2011 — honor list
• Locus Awards 2011 — fantasy novel — 5th place
• Carl Brandon Awards 2012 — Kindred Award winner — winner
citations:
“Tumaki”
anthologies:
2009
“On the Road”
anthologies:
“From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7”
anthologies:
2008
“Spider the Artist” • short fiction • Seeds of Change
awards:
• WSFA Small Press Award 2009 — shortlist — nomination
2007
The Shadow Speaker • novel • Hyperion/Jump at the Sun
awards:
• Andre Norton Award 2008 — finalist
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2008 — honor list
• Locus Awards 2008 — young adult book — 7th place
• Carl Brandon Awards 2008 — Parallax Award winner — winner
• Golden Duck Awards 2008 — Hal Clement Award (young adult) — nomination
2005
Zahrah the Windseeker • novel • Houghton Mifflin
awards:
• Locus Awards 2006 — first novel — 12th place
• Carl Brandon Awards 2006 — Kindred Award shortlist
• Carl Brandon Awards 2006 — Parallax Award shortlist
citations:
2004
“The Magical Negro” • short fiction • Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2005 — shortlist
anthologies:
2000
“The Palm Tree Bandit” • Strange Horizons (online) Dec 11 2000
anthologies:
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