Adaeze Okonkwo
Historical Fiction & Memoir
Historian and memoirist writing about harvest, migration, and the record families keep of themselves.
Literary Agent
Enyioma Grace Adaku
Represents literary fiction and nonfiction that reads culture closely and refuses easy conclusions.
About
Enyioma Grace Adaku came to agenting from literary journalism and international rights. She is drawn to prose that carries an argument inside it, and to writers thinking across borders, languages, and generations.
She works patiently and openly with her authors, often over several drafts, and has a strong record placing debut literary fiction and essay-driven nonfiction with independent and major houses alike.
What I’m Looking For
- Literary fiction from the diaspora and about migration
- Memoir with formal ambition
- Cultural criticism on music, faith, food, or language
- Narrative nonfiction reported over time
What I’m Not Looking For
- Fantasy, science fiction, and horror
- Prescriptive self-help
- Thrillers and crime procedurals
Representative Interests
- Multigenerational family novels
- Translation, bilingualism, and naming
- Labour, care work, and the informal economy
- Essays that begin in the personal and end in the public
Featured Authors
Represented by Enyioma
Featured Books
Selected titles
Daughters of the Long Harvest
Adaeze Okonkwo
Historical Fiction
Across four decades and two continents, the women of a farming family carry a land dispute, a marriage of convenience, and a secret ledger of everything they were owed.
What the River Kept
Adaeze Okonkwo
Memoir
A teacher returns to the river of her childhood to reconstruct, from letters and interviews, the year her family left and the version of the story they agreed to tell.
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