![]() ![]() She is a fellow and Vice Chair of The Royal Society of Literature. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize For Fiction for her story, ‘Grace Jones’. ![]() Her new collection of stories, Nudibranch, published by Little Brown's Dialogue Books, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular, published by Jacaranda Books, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She was presented at the London Short Story Festival by Booker Prize winning author Ben Okri as a dynamic talent and featured in the Evening Standard Magazine as one of London’s exciting new authors. Her short stories have been published internationally including in Salt's Best British Short Stories 20, Kwani? and The Year's Best Weird Fiction. Her work has been featured in/on The New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian, the BBC and the Huffington Post, amongst other publications. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. ![]() ![]() Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. ![]()
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