![]() ![]() In this interview, Okparanta discusses finding the emotional heart of a story, writing within an omnipresent past, and whether a writer’s present location affects her writing. To read an exercise on manipulating chronology in order to create character, click here. She was born and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies by Bread Loaf, the Jentel Foundation, the Hermitage Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Hedgebrook. Henry Award and the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. Chinelo Okparanta is the author of the novel Under the Udala Trees and the story collection Happiness, Like Water.Ĭhinelo Okparanta is the author of the story collection Happiness, Like Water and the novel Under the Udala Trees. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, among others, and she was short-listed for the 2013 Caine Prize in African Writing. ![]()
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