FALL 2021 TANNER TALK: Nnedi Okorafor
NOVEMBER 18, 2021 at 12:00PM (VIRTUAL EVENT)
The Tanner Humanities Center was proud to host author Nnedi Okorafor in a virtual
conversation with Director Erika George and Assistant Professor of English Andrew
Shephard. The discussion focused on her writing, which she describes as "Africanfuturism"
and "Africanjujuism," as well as her newest novel, NOOR.
Okorafor’s works include WHO FEARS DEATH (in development at HBO into a TV series), the BINTI novella trilogy (optioned and in development with Media Res), THE BOOK OF PHOENIX, the AKATA books and LAGOON. She is the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and Lodestar awards and her debut novel ZAHRAH THE WINDSEEKER won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature.
Sponsored By: O.C Tanner, Utah Humanities, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks Program, College of Humanities