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He is the author of the acclaimed novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devil\u2019s Pawn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2020) and four poetry collections, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Can Words Do<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Who Sowed Hurt &amp; Beaded Pains<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recipient of the GT Bank Dusty Manuscript Prize and the ANA Prize for Fiction amongst others, Kukogho is the founder of Words Rhymes &amp; Rhythm (WRR) and the editor-in-chief of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u1ecc<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0301N-SC\u00cc\u00d2 Magazine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Currently based in Hatfield, United Kingdom as a Global Talent, he is working on a novel inspired by African mysticism. He is also currently focusing on rediscovering the art of photography and building <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transitus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a UK-based literary magazine dedicated to platforming and amplifying the unique voices of the diaspora.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6240,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6239","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kukogho Iruesiri Samson - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/kukogho-iruesiri-samson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kukogho Iruesiri Samson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kukogho Iruesiri Samson is an award-winning Nigerian writer, publisher, and communications professional with over a decade of experience in the creative arts. 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