Prof. Anezi Okoro
The 7th COAL CITY BOOK CONVENTION will hold this year on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th November at The Exhibition Hall of The Alliance Francaise (French Cultural Centre), in Enugu.
The Olaudah Equiano Life-Award, which will feature at the Opening Ceremony, will be conferred on celebrated Dermatologist and author Professor Anezi Okoro, who at 86 reigns as Africa’s eldest surviving first generation novelist, and among Nigeria’s most widely-read authors of modern contemporary fiction.
It will be recalled that Professor Okoro hit the big-time as a best-selling novelist in the late 1960s with such classics as The Village School, The Village Headmaster, One Week One Trouble, Double Trouble. These were interlarded with such children’s adventure classics as Febechi in Cave Adventure, Febechi Down the Niger, Eclipse Fever. His landmark English-Igbo translation of Shakespeare, Akuko Ufodu Shakespeare Koro, has remained an all-time classic in the south-east of Nigeria.
Activities in this year’s book convention will revolve around the literary career of Professor Anezi Okoro, with a mini-book fair and a roundtable workshop.
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