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Diran Adebayo
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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