Irenosen Okojie MBE, is a British Nigerian author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards.
Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review. She co-presented the BBC’s Turn Up for The Books podcast, alongside Simon Savidge and Bastille frontman Dan Smith. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Dublin Literary Award and the BBC National Short Story Award.
She was a judge for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. In 2023 she was named a visionary artist in Red Magazine’s The Next 25 Visionaries to watch. Her novel, Curandera is published by Dialogue Books. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival, a multidisciplinary Afrofuturist festival.
Refs: Irenosen Okojie – Wikipedia
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