Musa Okwonga

Musa Okwonga qualified and practised as a lawyer before pursuing a career as an author, broadcaster, poet, musician and podcaster.

He has written seven books. A Cultured Left Foot was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award; Striking Out – co-authored with Ian Wright – won the 2022 Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book of the Year Award; and his debut novel, In The End, It Was All About Love, was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.

His journalism and opinion pieces have appeared in GQ, the Financial Times, Die Welt, Die Zeit, The Guardian, the New Statesman and the New York Times, among other publications.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford. He lives in Berlin.