Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, author of ‘The Son of the House’ has emerged first winner of the SprinNG Women Authors Prize.
Olaoluwa Oni, author of ‘The yNBA’ came first runner-up and Azizah Idris, second runner-up.
Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s ‘Son of the House’, published by Parresia Publishers, tells the story of two women who share their life stories after they are kidnapped and kept in the same room.
SpringNG selects a Nigerian female author, someone who has published a full-length book in print, and invest N100,000 in purchasing, distributing, and marketing copies of their book nation-wide. The prize money, however, was later increased to N200,000, “due to a sponsor’s generosity,” the SpringNG wrote on its website.
The prize, established in 2020, uses this opportunity to promote other select authors through interviews, book reviews, newsletter promotions, and collaborations to increase their visibility in the Nigerian literary sphere.
