Here I add fun things - what makes me laugh, the musings within the attic of my mind where all sorts of jumbled up stuff resides; treasures and trinkets, diamonds and dirt, shadow and light. And also my answers to interview questions about life and writing!
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Famed Literary Festival Back With A Bang!
Time Of The Writer Festival. University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA.
Time Of The Writer Festival. University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA.
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An Ordinary Wonder Live Event With Narrator Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury in #Bridgerton and Nenneke In The Witcher, and Author Buki Papillon.
You can still listen here if you missed the event. Simply click on the link below and, register, and listen away!
(Organized by Hoopla and OrangeSky Audio.)
You can still listen here if you missed the event. Simply click on the link below and, register, and listen away!
(Organized by Hoopla and OrangeSky Audio.)
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The Artful Periscope. The Nimble Art of Storytelling.
Buki Papillon, author of her premier novel An Ordinary Wonder, takes Larry on a trip to her childhood growing up in Nigeria, her friendship and mentor Lori Foos, the uniqueness of the Yoruba people and the rate of having twin children...and we even get a reading from Buki’s book!
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Cambridge Common Writers
Spotlight Series: Black History Month – Buki Papillon
Next in our Spotlight series for Black History Month is Fiction alum Buki Papillon... In this interview, Buki talks to us about the enthusiastic reactions to her novel, overcoming self-doubt, and her next novel.
Spotlight Series: Black History Month – Buki Papillon
Next in our Spotlight series for Black History Month is Fiction alum Buki Papillon... In this interview, Buki talks to us about the enthusiastic reactions to her novel, overcoming self-doubt, and her next novel.
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Joy Keys Chats With Author Buki Papillon About An Ordinary Wonder
The Yoruba people of Nigeria have an extraordinarily high rate of twins, and a mythology to match – the story of Taiwo and Kehinde, the one who came first, and the one who lagged behind. In Papillon’s story, we follow another set of twins, Otolorin – one who walks a different path; and Wuraola – a wealth of gold.
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Refinery 29: R29Unbothered
Buki Papillon’s An Ordinary Wonder Is Anything But Ordinary
"While Papillon’s debut, which was first released overseas last year, is certainly a heavy read...it’s an equally important one; there aren’t many stories like Otolorin’s in bookstores right now."
Buki Papillon’s An Ordinary Wonder Is Anything But Ordinary
"While Papillon’s debut, which was first released overseas last year, is certainly a heavy read...it’s an equally important one; there aren’t many stories like Otolorin’s in bookstores right now."
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Lesley University. Why We Write
Buki Papillon's debut is No 'Ordinary Wonder'
On the podcast: Debut author Buki Papillon talks about her acclaimed novel of an intersex teen coming of age in Nigeria.
Buki Papillon's debut is No 'Ordinary Wonder'
On the podcast: Debut author Buki Papillon talks about her acclaimed novel of an intersex teen coming of age in Nigeria.
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Women's Media Center
This Book Examines Coming of Age as an Intersex Teen. Interview with Lakshmi Gandhi.
This Book Examines Coming of Age as an Intersex Teen. Interview with Lakshmi Gandhi.
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Aké Arts & Book Festival. Nigeria.
Elohor Egbordi chats with Buki Papillon about her extraordinary debut novel, which follows a young Nigerian, Oto, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl.
Elohor Egbordi chats with Buki Papillon about her extraordinary debut novel, which follows a young Nigerian, Oto, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl.
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The Influential Women Podcast.
Where I talk all things Life, and An Ordinary Wonder, with Nicki Bannerman! @nickihbc
Where I talk all things Life, and An Ordinary Wonder, with Nicki Bannerman! @nickihbc
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Dialogue Books | On Writing and Nigerian Culture:
My Yoruba Nigerian heritage is like my North star, and underpins one of the strongest elements running through An Ordinary Wonder.
My Yoruba Nigerian heritage is like my North star, and underpins one of the strongest elements running through An Ordinary Wonder.
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Greg Buchanan Questions With - Eighteen Authors and a Pandemic:
This compilation by SIXTEEN HORSES AUTHOR, Greg Buchanan, features several amazing 2021 debut authors including me.
This compilation by SIXTEEN HORSES AUTHOR, Greg Buchanan, features several amazing 2021 debut authors including me.
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WRITING CRABWISE.
Sidling sideways upon your intended target. Also a means of wrangling a wayward novel into submission. You log on, read your e-mail, browse a couple of news stories. You pick up a random manual on creative writing and peruse the pages until … suddenly, a spark!
You open a fresh page on Word (mind you don’t open the document containing your novel just yet), begin free-writing a scene from the last place you found yourself stuck, and before you know it, you're in. Just like that!
You open a fresh page on Word (mind you don’t open the document containing your novel just yet), begin free-writing a scene from the last place you found yourself stuck, and before you know it, you're in. Just like that!
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Love After Love
The time will come, when,
with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door,
in your own mirror.
And each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, “Sit here, Eat. Relax.”
You will love again this stranger who is your
Self.
Give wine. Give bread.
Give back your heart,
to itself,
to this stranger who has loved you
all your life,
whom you ignored for another,
but who knows you by heart...
Derek Walcott.
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