Gabriel Gbadamosi is an Irish Nigerian poet and playwright. His novel Vauxhall (Telegram, 2013) won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and Best International Novel at the Sharjah International Book Fair. He was AHRC Creative Research Fellow in European and African performance at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Judith E. Wilson Fellow for creative writing at Cambridge University. He presented BBC Radio 3’s flagship arts and ideas program, Night Waves, and is the founding editor of WritersMosaic.

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