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Time Of The Writer Festival. University of KwaZulu-Natal, SA.
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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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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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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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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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This Book Examines Coming of Age as an Intersex Teen. Interview with Lakshmi Gandhi.
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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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Where I talk all things Life, and An Ordinary Wonder, with Nicki Bannerman! @nickihbc
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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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This compilation by SIXTEEN HORSES AUTHOR, Greg Buchanan, features several amazing 2021 debut authors including me.
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WRITING CRABWISE.

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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