Curandera

I loved it. Vivid, brutal, moving and tender. This is heartfelt and immersive. – Joanne Harris, author of CHOCOLATOkojie has served up a delightful gourmet of magical, creative prose and masterful storytelling. A rare talent. – Alex Wheatle MBEI’m in awe of Irenosen Okojie’s burden of talent. Leave your rational mind behind with your phone and enter Curandera’s spell. – Laline Paull, author of THE BEES and PODThe power of this weird, haunting fiction is undeniable, largely due to a wonderfully inventive prose style that verges on the hallucinogenic while remaining bracingly grounded in the physical. – Lisa Tuttle * Guardian *Curandera is the mesmerising by-product of Okojie’s extraordinary imagination and writing that is mindbogglingly glorious. – Yvvette EdwardsWith her trademark lyricism and inventiveness, Okojie takes us into different worlds … with an ease that runs as smooth as honey. – Mahsuda SnaithI was blown away by Curandera and by the epic scale of Okojie’s imagination and creativity. Her original and lyrical use of language is hypnotic and visceral … I loved it. – Louise MinchinCurandera is an exhilarating experience of a novel that will take you on a hallucinatory trip into the soul and the phantasmagorical unknown. – Bernardine EvaristoThe style is chimeric and delirious. – Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *Curandera is simply out of this world! It’s like nothing I have read before. Irenosen Okojie effortlessly takes you into spheres you didn’t know existed. – Uwem Akpan, author of SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEMA mesmerising, time-bending tour de force, full of intoxicating magic and intrigue. I was hooked from the first page. – Blitz Bazawule, director of THE COLOR PURPLE

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review. She co-presented the BBC’s Turn Up for The Books podcast, alongside Simon Savidge and Bastille frontman Dan Smith. Her work has been optioned for the screen. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival.