Cuirt International Festival of Literature

In partnership with the Desmond Eliott Prize and the National Centre for Writing.

This event showcases the shortlisted writers for the 2020 Desmond Elliott prize for new fiction, featuring some of the most exciting and challenging writing talent from across the UK and Ireland.

Crossing all manner of borders and boundaries, these three exceptional debuts explore the meaning of home, belonging, and the growing pains of selfhood. Okechukwu Nzelu’s The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney follows a young woman’s life and relationships through her Igbo–Nigerian family, and the misadventures of her extended social circle. Derek Owusu’s fragmentary That Reminds Me centres around K, the son of Ghanaian parents in London, from birth to adulthood, encompassing K’s encounters with self-expression, friendship and belonging, in the midst of a society actively hostile to a Black working-class family. Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice is the story of Adunni, a young…