KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON

KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON

Name: KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON
Book (s):

Awards:

  • 1st Prize Winner Orange Crush Poetry Prize 2012
  • Poetry Writer of the Year, (Nigerian Writers Awards 2016)
  • ANA Prize for Fiction 2017, (2nd-Runner-up)
  • 1st Prize Winner GTB Dusty Manuscript Prize 2018
  • 100 Most Influential Nigerian Writers Under 40 (2016, 2017, 2018)

Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Non fiction

BIOGRAPHY:

Kukogho Iruesiri Samson is a Nigerian writer, communications professional, and publishing entrepreneur. Kukogho has authored four poetry books: What Can Words Do (2013); I Said These Words (2015); Words of Eros (2017); We Who Sowed Hurt & Beaded Pains (2017); and a novel, Devil’s Pawn (2020). His awards include the 2018 GT Bank Dusty Manuscript Prize, the 2017 ANA Prize for Fiction (first runner-up), the 2016 Nigerian Writers Award (NWA) for Best Poet in Nigeria, and the 2012 Orange Crush Prize for Poetry. He also featured on NWA’s list of 100 Most Influential Nigerian Writers Under 40 in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He is the CEO of Authorpedia Publishers, an assisted-authorship publishing firm, and the editor-in-chief of CỌ́NSCÌÒ MAGAZINE, a quarterly literary publication. The Abuja-based writer is known for his work with young Nigerian writers and the promotion of Nigerian writing.