Cheluchi Onyemelukwe is a lawyer, academic and writer. She works in the areas of health, gender, violence against women and children and other social issues. She holds a doctorate degree in law from Dalhousie University, Canada. She lives in Lagos.
The Son of The House, her first novel, won the
Sharjah International Book Festival Award for Best International Fiction in 2019.
The NLNG Prize for Literature in 2021.
