Francesca Ekwuyasi

francesca ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Butter Honey Pig Bread is her first novel. It won the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. The novel was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and a Lambda Literary Award, and was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2021, Butter Honey Pig Bread was named runner-up in CBC’s Canada Reads competition.