Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia wins $100,000 NLNG Literature Prize for 2021. Her work "The Son of the House won the 2021 edition of the grand prize.
While Nigerian writer and academic Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike , was selected as the winner of 2021 The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism category .
He won in the category Self-Publishing in the era of military rule in Nigeria, 1985 – 1999”, “Postcolonial Ogres in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow”, and “Land of cemetery: funereal images in the poetry of Musa Idris Okpanachi”.
The literary criticism prize carries a monetary value of N1 million.
The judges stated that there has been a visible improvement in writing skills and commended Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, (founder and sponsors of the prize), for giving writers the platform to blossom and experiment.
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