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In Conversation with Irenosen Okojie at Whitechapel Gallery

Thursday 10 February / 7pm  / Whitechapel Gallery / Tickets

 

Join us at Whitechapel Gallery, where Irenosen Okojie MBE will be in conversation with Izabella Scott, co-editor of The White Review.

 

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose experimental works create vivid narratives that play with form and language. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish and short story collections Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch have won and been shortlisted for multiple awards. A fellow and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Irenosen is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for her story ‘Grace Jones’. She was awarded an MBE For Services To Literature in 2021. 

 

Izabella Scott is co-editor of The White Review.


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