Irenosen Okojie

Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie is a Nigerian-born novelist and short-story writer working in London, England. 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. Okojie was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) in 2018, and in 2020 was appointed a vice-chair of the RSL.