# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irenosen-okojie
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:01:26.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irenosen-okojie"
name: "Irenosen Okojie"
slug: "irenosen-okojie"
description: "Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie FRSL 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."
tagline: "Nigerian-born short story and novel writer working in London"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irenosen_Okojie_at_the_2025_Jaipur_Literature_Festival_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.38
  momentum:             6.93877551020408
  historical:           7.474154666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.irenosenokojie.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Irenosen Okojie"
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    title: "Irenosen Okojie"
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    title: "Irenosen Okojie"
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    title: "Irenosen Okojie"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenosen_Okojie"
    title: "Irenosen Okojie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenosen_Okojie"
    title: "Irenosen Okojie"
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    title: "ایرینوسن اوکوجی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump