Cheluchi Onyemelukwe
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe is a Nigerian-Canadian author and academic. She is best known for her 2019 family saga novel The Son of the House which she won the Nigeria Prize for Literature awards for in 2021.She is also a Professor of Law at Babcock University, where she served formerly as an assistant professor. In 2019, she won the award for the best international fiction book at the Sharjah International Book Fair. In 2021, she won the SprinNG women authors prize.Her novel was also nominated for the Giller Prize in 2021.
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[edit]- When we bury ourselves in a story that is well told, we can’t help but go away with an understanding that we may not have had before. We go away with being able to see things perhaps a little more clearly, a little more humanely.
- what would be considered a middle-class setting, where women seem to have power, but they are living in a particular context that requires them to contort themselves into different things. And so they make choices that are not necessarily the kindest choices for others or choices that we would consider to be good.
- "Literature has always been my first love. I started writing at the age of seven. My father became my inspiration. I had a great upbringing and that has really been my foundation. I also have a strong faith in God. I am thankful that I am able to bring my writing to the world."
- "The more direct inspiration was a story my mum told me about a young boy that once lived with us who was taken from his mother which made me think that we need to have a conversation about the place of women in society and to specifically write about it."
- "I am a lawyer and I have experienced things that have made me realise that we need to keep having conversations about the fact that women are human and can be just as powerful as anybody else."
- "Writers, obviously, have some things in mind when they write. They are hoping to write the best stories, the best book possible. But, of course, nothing is guaranteed until it actually happens."
