Okojie leads a discussion for the British Library in 2022
Born
Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie
Nigeria
Nationality
Nigerian
British
Alma mater
London Metropolitan University
Notable work
Butterfly Fish (2016)
"Grace Jones" (2019)
Awards
Betty Trask Award
Caine Prize for African Writing
Website
www.irenosenokojie.com
Irenosen Iseghohi OkojieMBE FRSL is a Nigerian-born short story and novel writer working in London. Her stories incorporate speculative elements and also make use of her West African heritage. Her first novel, Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask Award in 2016, and her story "Grace Jones" won the 2020 Caine Prize for African Writing.[1] She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
^"Irenosen Okojie". Elise Dillsworth Agency (EDA). Retrieved 27 July 2020.
Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie MBE FRSL is a Nigerian-born short story and novel writer working in London. Her stories incorporate speculative elements and also...
Marina Warner Chair of Council Daljit Nagra Vice-Chair of Council IrenosenOkojie Vice-Presidents Lisa Appignanesi Simon Armitage Mary Beard Anne Chisholm...
British Nigerian author IrenosenOkojie". BBC News. 27 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020. Alison Flood (27 July 2020). "IrenosenOkojie wins the Caine prize...
Alexievich, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Priyamvada Gopal, Olga Tokarczuk, IrenosenOkojie, and Edmund de Waal. English PEN's outreach programme, Readers & Writers...
(including Bernice McFadden, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Anietie Isong and IrenosenOkojie), some of whom were previously unpublished in the UK. Six years later...
University, 17 November 2015. "New Daughters of Africa – Margaret Busby, IrenosenOkojie & Leone Ross | Chaired by Afua Hirsch", Wimbledon BookFest, 12 October...
Obiora (born 1986) Tolu Ogunlesi (born 1982) Chioma Okereke (living) IrenosenOkojie (living) Ben Okri (born 1959) Musa Okwonga (born 1979) Victor Oladokun...
Fiction with a Sense of Place Award. Among the book's many admirers are IrenosenOkojie, Colm Toibin, Andrea Wulf, Philip Pullman, Victoria Hislop, Maya C...
Elise Dillsworth Robert Antoni, Roy Heath (estate), Anthony Joseph, IrenosenOkojie, Yewande Omotoso, Courtney Pine, Noo Saro-Wiwa http://elisedillsworthagency...
000 Simon Wroe Chop Chop £5,000 2016 Alex Christofi Glass £10,000 IrenosenOkojie Butterfly Fish £5,000 Natasha Pulley The Watchmaker of Filigree Street...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, with Margaret Busby as prize ambassador and IrenosenOkojie as prize advocate. The SI Leeds Literary Prize "aims to act as a loudspeaker...
Indonesian Society by Gregory Forth. Caine Prize for African Writing: IrenosenOkojie, "Grace Jones" Camões Prize: Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva Carnegie...
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House Shortlist Abir Mukherjee A Rising Man Harvill Secker Shortlist IrenosenOkojie Speak Gigantular Jacaranda Books Shortlist David Olusoga Black and...
Humanities Program assembly in Abuja, Nigeria. July 27 – Nigerian IrenosenOkojie wins the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story, "Grace...
You Going to Save Yourself". Book Reporter. Retrieved June 27, 2023. Okojie, Irenosen (24 August 2018). "How Are You Going To Save Yourself by JM Holmes...
during Covid-19. Wayne Edward Ingram. For Charitable Service. Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie. Writer. For services to Literature. Stephen Albert Andrew Jaggs...
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