Nnedi Okorafor

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the Libby Book Award (a.k.a. the Librarians Choice Award) for Best Science Fiction, 🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🐬!

Full list here: https://www.libbylife.com/blog/the-winners-of-the-2026-libby-book-awards

✨📢 I’ll be a Guest of Honor at the Locus Awards this year!

Locus Magazine announced it here:
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/locus-awards-announces-guest-of-honor-nnedi-okorafor/

And here’s a picture of me relaxing with Periwinkle to prove that I actually do sometimes pause and rest, 😮‍💨😁:

I won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Fiction! 🏆 …with this loud obnoxious semi-autobiographical tribute to Nigerian-America🇳🇬🇺🇸, robots🤖, storytelling🦋and the triumph of (not over) “disability”🐬. 🥹

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize (Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction). I’m in powerful company!

Honored. 🥹 Thrilled. 💃🏿 Slightly levitating. 🤖

Happy Book Birthday to THE DAUGHTER WHO REMAINS. The novella trilogy is complete. 🐉🧙🏾‍♀️

This one opens with pure juju.

Najeeba has something terrible to kill.

Available where books are sold, including Afriware Books:
https://www.afriwarebooks.com/store/p4933/THE-DAUGHTER-WHO-REMAINS-NNEDI-OKORAFOR-9780756418991.html

I’m at Texas State University for a series of speaking engagements. It’s been wonderful and I’ll post about it when I am more settled.

Yesterday I got to tour a massive Texas ranch. It was beautiful and I wanted to belt out, “Home home on the raaaange!” 😆

Didn’t see any deer or antelope on the tour, but I saw plenty of hawks, eagles and vultures (I love raptors)…cattle, too, heehee.

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a pick for Target’s Book Club.🤖🇳🇬🇺🇸🐬

My works have a way of showing up where you least expect them, 😏. Wherever you meet this novel, I hope it meets you well.

I attended the NAACP Image Award nominee luncheon. My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a nominee for Outstanding Literary Work. Winners are revealed later this month.

It was warm, refreshing and an energizing place to be, as a black creative. Felt so honored.

Today was amazing and I’m too exhausted to post about it (I’m in Los Angeles).

However, here’s a magnificent creature of a clock I saw before the event (yes, its pendulum was swinging 🕰️🦄):

All 4 of my 2025 works made Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading list, 🥰.

Science Fiction:
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
ONE WAY WITCH (though this novella is more fantasy than SF, heh)

Illustrated Art & Books:
THE SPACE CAT

Anthologies:
THE BEST AMERICAN SF & FANTASY 2025

Full lists and link to vote here: https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a nominee for an NAACP Image Award, 🥰. Amazing. I'm so honored. #Africanfuturism

Full list of all categories here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2026-naacp-image-awards-nominations-1236468581/

This is my 1st time in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (I just never thought to submit there, heh).

My story is called “The Apology Tour” & it’s set in the world of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. It's about the consequences of AI. Plus, you meet Ijele for the 1st time, imagine that, 😉.

@kirih@mastodon.world Eeeek, first response I’ve heard to that story! 😃!!

More Ife and Ijele? 😏…🤐.

One of them has quite the role in Death of the Author, 😉.

All published in 2025. 💪🏾

My novel NOOR was an answer in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle, 😃. #Africanfuturism FTW. 🇳🇬

My publisher gifted me with this special edition of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR as a Christmas present, 🥹. It looks like one of the classic tomes in the bookcase at my parents' house. I read MOBY DICK because it was leatherbound like this one.

Next year, I’m doing the Terry Lectureship at Yale in March/April. It’s a century-old lecture series that’s hosted some truly heavyweight thinkers. Wild to be stepping onto that stage 😅 https://philosophy.yale.edu/events/2026-03-31-terry-lectureship-nnedi-okorafor