Jude Idada Receives NLNG Prize for his book explores sickle cell disease

Jude Idada, Nigerian writer and filmmaker was recently awarded the 2019 Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited, for his third children’s book Boom Boom, a novel that explores sickle cell disease.
The 2019 NLNG Prize focused on children’s literature and on the judging panel was Asabe Usman Kabir, professor of oral and African literatures at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto; Patrick Oloko, senior lecturer in African postcolonial literature, gender and cultural studies at the University of Lagos; and the chair, Obodimma Oha, professor of cultural semiotics and stylistics at the University of Ibadan.
 
On the shortlist was Dunni Olatunde’s Mysteries at Ebenezer’s Lodge and O.T. Begho’s The Great Walls of Benin.
The longlist included Adoabi Tricia Nwaubani’s Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, and ten-year old Anisa Daniel-Oniko, for her book Double ‘A’ for Adventure.
The NLNG At $100,000 Prize is in its fifteenth year, it honours a published book and chooses a particular genre each year, which can be poetry, prose fiction, drama, and children’s literature.
 
Previous winners of the NLNG Prize for Literature include Ezenwa Ohaeto and Gabriel Okara for poetry in 2005, Ahmed Yerima for drama in 2006, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Mabel Segun for children’s literature in 2007, Kaine Agary for prose fiction in 2008, Adeleke Adeyemi for children’s literature in 2011, Chika Unigwe for prose fiction in 2012, Tade Ipadeola for poetry in 2013, Sam Ukala for drama in 2014, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim for prose fiction in 2016, Ikeogu Oke for poetry in 2017, and Soji Cole for drama in 2018.
 
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