Debut Novelists: Authors Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Okwiri Oduor, and Eloghosa Osunde with Anderson Tepper
For our April International Writers series, join Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Okwiri Oduor, and Eloghosa Osunde in conversation with Anderson Tepper on their new books.
The debut novels of this month’s three authors powerfully explore themes of outsiderness and the search for belonging. In Trinidadian writer Banwo’s When We Were Birds, a love affair blossoms on the grounds of one of the Caribbean’s oldest cemeteries. Kenyan writer Oduor’s Things They Lost follows a lonely and restless child as she seeks comfort in an intoxicating landscape. While Nigerian author Osunde’s Vagabonds! celebrates the defiant outcastes—and outlaws—making up the megalopolis of Lagos. All three books bring to life unforgettable worlds and introduce thrilling new voices.
Participants
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Moko, Small Axe, POUi, PREE, Callaloo, and Anomaly. She received an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.
Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short story “My Father’s Head” won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. Oduor has an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Germany.
Photo by Chelsea Bieker
Eloghosa Osunde is a Nigerian writer. Winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction, she was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a Lambda Literary Fellow. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Longreads, Catapult, and elsewhere.
Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the International Committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and has written for The New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, World Literature Today, and Words without Borders, among other publications.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
For our April International Writers series, join Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Okwiri Oduor, and Eloghosa Osunde in conversation with Anderson Tepper on their new books.
The debut novels of this month’s three authors powerfully explore themes of outsiderness and the search for belonging. In Trinidadian writer Banwo’s When We Were Birds, a love affair blossoms on the grounds of one of the Caribbean’s oldest cemeteries. Kenyan writer Oduor’s Things They Lost follows a lonely and restless child as she seeks comfort in an intoxicating landscape. While Nigerian author Osunde’s Vagabonds! celebrates the defiant outcastes—and outlaws—making up the megalopolis of Lagos. All three books bring to life unforgettable worlds and introduce thrilling new voices.
Participants
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Moko, Small Axe, POUi, PREE, Callaloo, and Anomaly. She received an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.
Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short story “My Father’s Head” won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. Oduor has an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Germany.
Photo by Chelsea Bieker
Eloghosa Osunde is a Nigerian writer. Winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction, she was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a Lambda Literary Fellow. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Longreads, Catapult, and elsewhere.
Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the International Committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and has written for The New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, World Literature Today, and Words without Borders, among other publications.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
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