Simon Okotie is a fiction writer and essayist. He is the author of the acclaimed Absalon Trilogy, and his fiction and essays have appeared in Financial Times Weekend, Firmament and gorse and at The London Magazine, 3:AM Magazine and The White Review. He was a Creative Fellow at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading for 2022-23, and is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at City, University of London, for 2023-24.
The Orwell Foundation