Some Kind of Black

Oludiran "Diran" Adebayo (born 1968) is a British novelist, cultural critic, and academic of Nigerian descent, best known for his debut novel Some Kind of Black (1996), which won the Saga Prize, Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, Writers' Guild New Writer of the Year, and Betty Trask Award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Site. His follow-up My Once Upon a Time (2001) fused noir with Yoruba folklore, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature with various residencies including the British Museum.