Irenosen Okojie

Author

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian-British author and arts broadcaster who has established herself as one of the most exciting and distinctive voices in contemporary British fiction. Curandera is a collection of short stories that showcases Okojie's extraordinary imaginative range, blending elements of magical realism, speculative fiction,... mythology and sharp social observation to create stories that are unlike anything else in contemporary literature. Her writing is characterised by its boldness, its formal experimentation and its willingness to take readers to places they have never been before. She is also the author of the short story collection Speak Gigantular and the novel Butterfly Fish. She has won the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing and been shortlisted for numerous other awards. Her audiobooks and books offer readers some of the most inventive and daring fiction being written in Britain today. Read more Show less