Cassava Republic Press, in partnership with A + F Creative, will be launching a series of events to celebrate black writing tagged “Black: The Literary Salon.” The first event, themed “Love and Desire Bared,” will take place on February 27, 2020 at Ace Hotel, London. It will feature the Nigerian-German writer Olumide Popoola and the Nigerian-British writers Irenosen Okojie and Diana Evans.
In an email to Brittle Paper, Cassava Republic publishing director Bibi Bakare-Yusuf explained that “Each writer will invite the audience to think about different forms of love and desire, and reveal the ways in which these concepts are explored in their writing.”
Tickets for the event are available for £15.
Olumide Popoola is the author of When We Speak of Nothing, which was shortlisted for a Diva Literary Award and was named one of the Guardian‘s Best Books of 2017.
Irenosen Okojie is the author of Butterfly Fish, which won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. She was recently inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Diana Evans is the author of Ordinary People, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, New Statesman, and Financial Times, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and won the South Bank Sky Arts Award.
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