Boasting the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Bill Muster Award as well as the 2018 Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book, for her book Due North. She has also authored Lagom: Swedish Secret of Living Well which is a bestseller and available in 18 foreign language editions.
Her latest offering “In Every Mirror She’s Black” has received glowing reviews from readers and critics around the world and she has proven once again that she truly knows her onions. She sits down with The Guardian Life to discuss her early life, thoughts on race, and her latest masterpiece.I was born in Nigeria, educated in the US, and now based in Sweden, I am a visual storyteller and multipotentialite – someone who thrives on multiple creative outlets at onceI grew up in Lagos in a family of travelers so wanderlust has always been in my blood. I’m also grateful to have parents who never put limits on what I could do or dream up for myself as a young girl.
Fiction was my first love and it feels like a wonderful full-circle moment to return to it. I read widely and deeply, and as a teenager in my university English literature class, I discovered D.H. Lawrence and the dramatic interiority of his work. Since then I’ve had lots of literary inspiration from Toni Morrison to Jacqueline Woodson.
They often say debut novelists are quite ambitious because we want to tackle every single societal problem in a single book. With In Every Mirror She’s Black, I wanted to address them seamlessly while spotlighting all these issues because they aren’t mutually exclusive.
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