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Gabriel Gbadamosi is a poet, playwright and essayist. His London novel Vauxhall won the 2011 Tibor Jones pageturner prize and best international novel at the 2013 Sharjah Book Fair. He was AHRC creative and performing arts Fellow in European and African performance at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Judith E. Wilson Fellow for creative writing at Cambridge University.
Ato Quayson is Jean G. and Morris M. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English at Stanford University. He will be the inaugural chair of the new Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford in 2024. He has published widely on African literature, literary theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. His works include Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism, winner of the Urban History Association's 2015 Best Book Prize; Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature, which received the Warren-Brooks Best Book in Criticism Award for 2022; andt co-edited The City in World Literature.