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Gbolahan Obisesan Author & Editor

Gbolahan Obisesan is an award-winning director and playwright who lives in London. His stage play Mad About the Boy, produced by Iron Shoes and developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio, ran at the Edinburgh Festival and was awarded a Fringe First for Best Play. Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree, he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Pigeon English is his first novel.