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Bayo Olayinka Ojikutu (born 1971) is a
Ojikutu from Creative Quarantine Series in Esthetic Lens Magazine
Interview with Ojikutu from Newcity, a Chicago culture magazineOjikutu in the TriQuarterly Literary JournalFeature on Ojikutu from TNB.comOjikutu in Chicago Magazine
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Bayo Olayinka Ojikutu (born 1971) is a Nigerian-American
Nigerian Americans ( ig, Ṇ́dị́ Naìjíríyà n'Emerịkà;
ha, Yan Najeriyar asalin Amurka;
yo, Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà) are an ethnic group of Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry. The number of Nigerian immigran ...
creative writer, novelist and university lecturer.
His first novel, ''47th Street Black'' ( Crown, 2003), received the Washington Prize for Fiction and the Great American Book Award. Ojikutu's short fiction has appeared widely, including within the pages of the 2013 Akashic Press collection ''USA Noir'' and in the speculative fiction anthology ''Shadow Show''. Ojikutu's short story, "Yayi and Those Who Walk on Water: A Fable", received a Special Mention nomination from the Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...
for outstanding fiction published in literary presses in 2009. By then, Three Rivers Press
Three Rivers Press is the trade paperback imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House. It publishes original paperback titles as well as paperback reprints of books issued initially in hardcover by the other Crown imprints ...
had released his second novel, ''Free Burning'', to considerable critical acclaim .
Ojikutu has taught creative writing at the University of Chicago, DePaul, and at Roosevelt University.
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Ojikutu from Creative Quarantine Series in Esthetic Lens Magazine
Interview with Ojikutu from Newcity, a Chicago culture magazine
Nigerian writers 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American people of Nigerian descent 1971 births Living people American people of Yoruba descent University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni African-American novelists Writers from Chicago 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Illinois 21st-century African-American writers 20th-century African-American people African-American male writers {{US-novelist-1970s-stub