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.
Early life and career
Onyemelukwe is
Nigerian. She attended
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia
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in
Nova Scotia, Canada for her
Doctor of Juridical Science, and further more at the
University of Nigeria where she obtained her first degree in
Law. In 2017, she published ''Health Research Governance in Africa'' which was published by
Routledge Publishing
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. In 2019, she published ''
The Son of the House'', a family saga which has been translated in several languages and has also received critical acclaim.
She is also a
Professor of Law
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in
Babcock University.
Bibliography
*''Health Research Governance in Africa'' (2017)
*''
The Son of the House'' (2019)
References
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Igbo writers
Igbo educators
Nigerian writers
Dalhousie University alumni
University of Nigeria alumni
21st-century Nigerian lawyers
21st-century Nigerian novelists
21st-century Nigerian women writers
21st-century Canadian lawyers
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian women writers
Nigerian women lawyers
Nigerian women novelists
Canadian women lawyers
Canadian women novelists
Black Canadian writers
Black Canadian women
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nigeria Prize for Literature winners