Diran Adebayo is a successful novelist, cultural critic and academic, best known for his 1996 debut novel ‘Some Kind of Black’. He attended Malvern College on a scholarship between 1982-85 before going to the University of Oxford to study Law. In ‘Some Kind of Black’, Adebayo was one of the first authors to articulate a British-born African perspective and he won several awards for this novel such as the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain’s New Writer of the Year award, a Saga Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He has been praised by prolific authors such as Zadie Smith and is one of only twenty people to have their portraits painted and displayed by Oxford University in recognition of his achievements and contributions to both the University and to Literature.