Irenosen Okojie is a British-Nigerian writer and Arts Project
Manager. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and
was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award.
Her short story collection Speak Gigantular was Shortlisted for the
Edge Hill Short Story prize, the Saboteur Awards, the Shirley
Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize.
Irenosen's work has been featured in the Observer, the Guardian,
the BBC and the Huffington Post amongst other publications. Her
short stories have been published internationally and she was
presented at the London Short Story Festival by Ben Okri as a
dynamic writing talent to watch. In 2016 Irenosen was featured in
the Evening Standard Magazine as one of London's exciting new
authors. She currently lives in East London.
Butterfly Fish is a novel of epic proportions... From sentence to
sentence, Okojie conjures up acutely observed, beautifully-worded
metaphors that resonate and delight... I fully expect to see
Butterfly Fish on many an award nomination list. It is a
fascinating read, and one I highly recommend.
*Yvette Edwards (author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize, and The Mother), Words of Colour*
Her West African heritage is richly spun into her novel Butterfly
Fish... The tale is peppered with moments of magical surrealism: a
glass bottle shattering on a South London street to release two
tiny scurrying figures into the night; a butterfly fish bursts into
a local pool and belches a portentous brass key... The lyrical
prose brings poignancy to the familiar London landscape.
*Samuel Fishwick, Evening Standard*
Vital, vivid, witty, truthful...
*Maggie Gee, The Observer*
Butterfly Fish is a novel of epic proportions... From sentence to
sentence, Okojie conjures up acutely observed, beautifully-worded
metaphors that resonate and delight... I fully expect to see
Butterfly Fish on many an award nomination list. It is a
fascinating read, and one I highly recommend.
*Yvette Edwards (author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize, and The Mother), Words of Colour*
Her West African heritage is richly spun into her novel Butterfly
Fish... The tale is peppered with moments of magical surrealism: a
glass bottle shattering on a South London street to release two
tiny scurrying figures into the night; a butterfly fish bursts into
a local pool and belches a portentous brass key... The lyrical
prose brings poignancy to the familiar London landscape.
*Samuel Fishwick, Evening Standard*
Vital, vivid, witty, truthful...
*Maggie Gee, The Observer*
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