Ekow Duker

Ekow Duker is a fiction author living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa, most notably recognised for his novel White Wahala, which was shortlisted for the European Union Literary Award in 2011/2012. Duker was educated in Ghana, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. He worked as an oil field engineer before becoming a banker, and then as an author. Aside from writing, Ekow works as a corporate strategist and in banking.[1]

Ekow Duker
OccupationEngineer, Banker, Writer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Notable awards
Website
ekowduker.com

Works

Ekow Duker self-published his first book, before being signed with Pan MacMillan.[2]

Fiction
  • White Wahala (2014)
  • Dying in New York (2014)
  • What will we do about Frikkie? (2015)

Personal life

Ekow Duker was married in 2009 and has two children, Nathan Duker and Noemi Duker. His wife, Thando Duker, died in 2012 due to a liver condition, but he later remarried to Bridget Duker.[3]

Duker is a devout Christian and expresses these views in his writing.[4]

References
  1. "EKOW DUKER « Pan Macmillan". Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  2. "Writing workshop Monday 8 September | Allaboutwriting". Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  3. "About me". Ekow Duker. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  4. "Oh Lord: It looks a lot like curtains". 16 April 2014.

http://www.ekowduker.com/

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