Nnedi Okorafor, Maaza Mengiste, and Kwei Quartey have been nominated for the 2021 Edgar® Awards.
The award is named after the mystery writer, Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is also known as the “patron saint” of the Mystery Writers of America. The awards, in its 75th year, honours the “best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television.”
The Edgar® Awards is administered by the Mystery Writers of America. The awards are given in different category: best novel, best first novel by an American author, best paperback original, best fact crime, best critical/biographical, best short story, best juvenile, best young adult, best television episode teleplay, Robert L. Fish Memorial Award, the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award, Grand Master, Raven Award, Ellery Queen Award.
Okorafor’s Ikenga was nominated for the category of Best Juvenile Mystery.
Mengiste’s “Dust, Ash, Flight,” published in the collection Addis Ababa Noir was nominated for the category of Best Short Story.
Quartey’s The Missing American was nominated for the category of Best Novel
The awards ceremony will be celebrated on April 29, 2021. Here is the full list of nominees
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