About Diran Adebayo
Oludiran "Diran" Adebayo FRSL is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic best known for his 1996 novel Some Kind of Black. Oludiran "Diran" Adebayo FRSL (born 30 August 1968) is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic best known for his 1996 novel Some Kind of Black. In 2005, Adebayo was Writer-in-residence at the British Museum and the first guest director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival. In 2000, Vienna University awarded Adebayo the $60,000 Abraham Woursell stipend, a prize for young noteworthy European writers. He won a Major Scholarship when he was 12 to Malvern College and is an Oxford University Law graduate.
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