Kingston staff and friends from the wider community, please join us on 8th Dec for a talk and book signing by Okechukwu Nzelu!
This venue is for Kingston staff and friends from the wider community. While our students get priority in the main hall, you are still most welcome to join us, and to have your book signed by the author afterwards. Please join us on 8th December at 4pm for an author talk and book signing from our 2021 KU Big Read author Okechukwu Nzelu. This will be a fantastic opportunity for everyone to ask him questions about his university experiences, his book The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney and even have their book signed!
Okechukwu Nzelu is a Manchester-based writer. In 2015 he was the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award from New Writing North. In 2020 his debut novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books/Little,Brown), won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Polari First Book Prize. In 2021, it was selected for the Kingston University Big Read. He is a regular contributor to Kinfolk magazine. His second novel, Here Again Now, will be published by Dialogue Books/Little,Brown in March 2022. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
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