Irenosen Okojie

Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie MBE FRSL ɗan Najeriya ɗan gajeriyar labari ne kuma marubucin labari yana aiki a Landan . Labarun nata sun haɗa da abubuwan hasashe kuma suna amfani da al'adunta na Yammacin Afirka . Littafinta na farko, Butterfly Fish ta lashe lambar yabo ta Betty Trask a cikin 2016, kuma labarinta " Grace Jones " ta lashe kyautar Caine na Rubutun Afirka na 2020. An zabe ta a matsayin Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature a 2018.

Irenosen Okojie
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Najeriya, 1978 (45/46 shekaru)
ƙasa	Birtaniya
Karatu
Makaranta	London Metropolitan University (en)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	marubuci
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Tarihin Rayuwa

Shekarun farko da ilimi

An haifi Irenosen Okojie a Najeriya . Lokacin tana da shekaru takwas danginta sun ƙaura zuwa Ƙasar Ingila . Okojie ya halarci Gresham's, makarantar kwana a Holt, Norfolk, kafin ya wuce zuwa St Angela's Convent School a Gabashin London sannan ya tafi makarantar kwana ta Stamford . Okojie ta koma Landan don kammala karatunta sannan ta halarci Jami'ar Metropolitan London, inda ta karanci Sadarwa da Al'adun Kayayyakin gani.

Sana'a

Okojie Manajan Ayyukan Arts ne kuma Mai kula da shi wanda ke Landan. Littafin littafinta na farko, Butterfly Fish, ya lashe lambar yabo ta Betty Trask a 2016. An buga rubuce-rubucenta a cikin The New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian, BBC da Huffington Post, kuma ta kasance mai ba da gudummawa ga 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edita ta Margaret Busby .

Okojie ta samu lambar yabo da dama kuma ta kasance alkali a sauran gasar adabi. Tarin 2016 na gajerun labarai, Speak Gigantular, an zaba shi don 2016 inaugural Jhalak Prize da kuma 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize . Labarinta An zabi Sassan Dabbobi don lambar yabo ta Shirley Jackson na 2016, kuma an ba da labarin gajeriyar labarinta ta Synsepalum a gidan rediyon BBC 4 don murnar lambar yabo na Gajerun Labarai na Ƙasa na BBC 2018.

Hakanan a cikin 2018, an zaɓi Okojie a matsayin Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . A ranar 19 ga Mayu 2020, an zaɓi ta don Kyautar Caine don Rubutun Afirka, kuma an sanar da ita a matsayin wadda ta yi nasara a ranar 27 ga Yuli 2020 don labarinta "Grace Jones".

An nada Okojie Memba na Order of the British Empire (MBE) a cikin 2021 Birthday Honors don hidima ga adabi.

Girmamawa da kyaututtuka

• 2016: Kyautar Betty Trask (na Butterfly Kifi )
• 2018: An Zaɓen Ɗan Ɗabi'a na Royal Society of Literature
• 2020: wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta AKO Caine don Rubutun Afirka (tare da " Grace Jones ")