Eloghosa Osunde

Eloghosa Osunde is a maker and artist whose work spans multiple disciplines from text-based art to film, brand consulting to visual art, theatre to creative curation and beyond. Winner of the Museum of African Diaspora's African Literary Award (2023), the Plimpton Prize for Fiction (2021), an ASME Award for Fiction (2022), they are the author of two widely celebrated novels: NECESSARY FICTION which has been lauded by almost thirty of the world’s top publications since its July 2025 release and VAGABONDS! which was a New York Times' Editors Choice, New Yorker Best Book of The Year, and has remained an unrelenting bestseller in Nigeria since its publication three years ago. A finalist for the Edmund White Prize For Fiction, the Nnomo Awards for Best Novel, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, a top three finalist for the VCU Capbell Prize; longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Nota Bene Prize, a NoName Book Club Pick, a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick and a Foyles Book Of The Month, Eloghosa has also worked with global brands from Orange Culture to Victoria’s Secret, crafting a custom monologue for supermodel Naomi Campbell. Eloghosa is an alumna of the Lambda Literary Workshop (2019), New York Film Academy (2017), the Caine Prize Workshop (2018), the Purple Hibiscus Trust Workshop (2015). Named one of the 100 most influential Africans (2022), Eloghosa's writing has appeared in multiple publications including Paris Review, Granta, Gulf Coast, Georgia Review, DAZED, Guernica, Lithub, Catapult, Berlin Quarterly and their visual art exhibited across three continents so far.