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Salena Godden

Salena Godden is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of mixed Jamaican-Irish heritage. Her work has been widely anthologised and broadcast on BBC Radio, TV and film and she consistently features at international book and poetry festivals.

Godden’s 2021 debut novel, Mrs Death Misses Death was published by Canongate Books and won the Indie Book Award for fiction, the People’s Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the British Book Awards. Godden has also been shortlisted for the 4thWrite Short Story Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Jerwood Compton Foundation and her poetry and fiction has been added to the GCSE school syllabus and the Open University.

Audio

In the Black Fantastic: Lina Iris Viktor x Salena Godden
In this graphic artist Lina Iris Viktor and Salena Godden are in black and white on a yellow background with a depiction of a soundwave in front of them
Podcast

In the Black Fantastic: Lina Iris Viktor x Salena Godden

Artist Lina Iris Viktor and poet Salena Godden discuss the themes of Hayward Gallery’s 2022 exhibition In the Black Fantastic in this special podcast.