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Yejide Kilanko was born on 1975 in Niger, is a writer. Discover Yejide Kilanko's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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2019

Her manuscript for her subsequent novel, which "fictionalizes the stories of female Nigerian nurses living in the United States who were murdered by their much older husbands," was shortlisted for Canada's Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction in 2019 under the working title Moldable Women . It was published in 2021 as A Good Name.

2018

In 2018, she published a children's book, There Is an Elephant in My Wardrobe, which is intended to help children with anxiety.

2016

Her novel was also shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2016, after it was released there by a Nigerian publisher. The prize eventually went to Abubakar Adam Ibrahim for his book Season of Crimson Blossoms.

2015

Her subsequent work of fiction, the novella Chasing Butterflies, was published in 2015 as a fundraiser for Worldreader. It also discusses violence against women, focusing on domestic violence.

2012

Her debut book, Daughters Who Walk This Path, was published in 2012. Set in her hometown of Ibadan, it deals with sexual assault and violence against women and children in Nigeria, told through the eyes of a child narrator. It was described by reviewers as breaking boundaries on the taboo of discussing sexual violence, particularly in Nigeria.

Daughters Who Walk This Path was a Canadian national fiction bestseller for several weeks. It was featured on the Globe and Mail's list of 100 best books of 2012. In 2014, the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recommended it for summer reading in the Guardian.

2000

In 2000, Kilanko left Nigeria, marrying an American and immigrating to Laurel, Maryland, in the United States. She then moved in 2004 to Canada, where she now lives in Chatham-Kent, Ontario.

1975

Yejide Kilanko (born 1975) is a Nigerian Canadian fiction writer and social worker. She is known for addressing violence against women in her work. Her debut novel, Daughters Who Walk This Path, was a Canadian fiction bestseller in 2012.

Kilanko was born in 1975 in Ibadan, Nigeria, where her father worked as a university professor. She began writing poetry at a young age. She studied political science at the University of Ibadan.