New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- HP. Lovecraft died in 1937. It took till 2011 for the literary world to confront his virulent racism. That year, writer Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death received the prestigious World Fantasy Award for best novel. Since 1975, when the award was constituted, the trophy for best novel had been a stylized bust of Lovecraft. Okorafor was ecstatic about the award but when she found out about his racism-especially a notorious, derogatory poem about African Americans -she was aghast. She couldn't believe that as a black American of Nigerian heritage, her work could be rewarded with a trophy bearing the likeness of a racist. Following an international outcry, the trophy design was changed in 2015. This pushback has now reache...