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Where:
SUNY Buffalo, North Campus
Center for the Arts, Black Box Theater
Amherst, NY 14260
Date: April 27, 2017
Time: 3:45 p.m.

The work of award-winning science fiction author and UB faculty member Nnedi Okorafor will be celebrated at this year’s Signature Series, the annual event celebrating UB’s legacy of innovation and distinction in arts and letters.

Okorafor will give remarks and present a book reading before being joined on stage for a conversation with Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and James Agee Professor of American Culture. A light reception will follow the keynote lecture.

Advance registration is requested.

Okorafor, associate professor in the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences is a novelist of African-based science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. In 2016, she became one of only four authors in the past 20 years to win both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award — two of the science fiction genre’s highest literary honors — for her novella “Binti,” the story of a mathematically gifted young African woman who must leave her family and customs to attend the galaxy’s most respected university.

Born in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents, Okorafor is known for weaving African culture into creative, evocative settings and memorable characters. The New York Times has described her novels as combining “politically complex science fiction and lyrical fantasy.”