"Highly recommended...The English novel needs more Diran Adebayos."
The Literary Review
Diran Adebayo has been hailed as one of the most original literary talents around. His first novel, the acclaimed Some Kind of Black, a nineties' coming of age story, broke new ground for the London novel, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won him the Saga Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club's 'Best First Novel' Award, and the Writers Guild's New Writer of the Year for 1996. His second novel, 'My Once Upon A Time', received more rave reviews. It was been called "an exhilarating, magical fairytale for our times" and a novel that "turns the private eye genre on its head". Diran has also written stories for BBC TV and radio, has been a columnist for 'New Nation' newspaper, and broadcasts and writes frequently on social and cultural issues for organs ranging from 'The Culture Show' to 'The Guardian'. In 2003, he co-edited 'New Writing 12' (Picador), an anthology that showcases new UK and Commonwealth writing. He is currently writing his third novel, 'The Ballad of Dizzy and Miss P'. He is a member of the national Council of the Arts Council of England, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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