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C. M. Okonkwo
C. M. Okonkwo is a French-speaking award-winning Nigerian author who grew up in Lagos and moved to France to study, where she obtained three degrees in Business Management, Personn...view moreC. M. Okonkwo is a French-speaking award-winning Nigerian author who grew up in Lagos and moved to France to study, where she obtained three degrees in Business Management, Personnel and Employment Management, and International HR Management and Development. An associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, she currently practices HR as a profession and also writes as a passionShe has published more than 25 books across various categories (prose, poetry, play) and genres (crime, thriller, literary fiction, erotica, romance, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction), some of which have been shortlisted for awards and also won prizes, including the Africa Book Club Short Story Competition (winner), the 50 Best Indie Books (two-time finalist), Quramo Writers’ Prize (two-time finalist), Wattpad Short Story Contest (multiple-time winner), and the African Writers Award (poetry longlist).She’s an active member of the International Thriller Writers and PEN Nigeria (where she is the secretary of the Editorial Board), and the secretary (2020 – 2022) of the Association of Nigerian Authors – Lagos chapter.CMO is the founder of Laybels UCL, a company that specialises in self-publishing literary works and birthed Blue Heels Production for short films and series and Literarily Yours Book Club. She hopes to impact lives through her work and also promote the reading culture in Nigeria by providing affordable books in print and online.view less