T. J. Benson is a Nigerian writer and portrait photographer. Benson was a runner-up for the
Short Story Day Africa Prize in 2016.
His stories have appeared in literary magazines including ''Catapult'' and ''
Transition Magazine
''Transition Magazine'' was established in 1961 by Rajat Neogy as ''Transition Magazine: An International Review''. It was published from 1961 to 1976 in various countries on the African continent, and since 1991 in the United States. In recent y ...
''. In 2018 he published ''We Won't Fade into Darkness'', a collection of
science and fantasy fiction short shories. The stories can be seen as an example of
Africanfuturism
Africanfuturism is a cultural aesthetic and philosophy of science that centers on the fusion of Culture of Africa, African culture, history, mythology, point of view, with technology based in Africa and not limiting to the diaspora. It was coined ...
.
Benson was an invited guest at the 2018
Aké Arts and Book Festival, moderating two panel discussions centered around filmmaking.
[ He published his debut novel, ''The Madhouse'', in 2021.][
]
Works
* ''We Won't Fade into Darkness''. Paressia, 2018.
* ''The Madhouse
''The Madhouse'' (Spanish: ''Casa de locos'') or ''Asylum'' (Spanish: ''Manicomio'') is an oil on panel painting by Francisco Goya. He produced it between 1812 and 1819 based on a scene he had witnessed at the then-renowned Zaragoza mental asylum ...
''. Masobe Books, 2021.
* ''People Live Here''. forthcoming 2022.
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian short story writers
Nigerian male short story writers
21st-century Nigerian novelists
Nigerian male novelists