About Henry Akubuiro
Henry Akubuiro was a Nigerian journalist, novelist and writer.
Henry Akubuiro is a Nigerian literary journalist, novelist and short story writer.
Early life and career Akubuiro graduated from the Department of English and Literary Studies, Imo State University, Owerri in 2003.
In 2005, he won the ANA Literary Journalist of the Year; while his unpublished juvenilia, Little Wizard of Okokomaiko, won the 2009 ANA/Lantern Prize for Fiction.
In 2016, he wrote Prodigals in Paradise, which was shortlisted for the 2016 ANA Prose Prize.
Akubuiro's children book, Mighty Mite and Golden Jewel was longlisted for the 2024 Nigeria Prize for Literature.
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