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Derek Owusu

@derekowusu.bsky.social
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Writer Granta Best of Young British Novelists

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Derek Owusu: ‘I’ve never figured out how to live in the world’ The novelist on the squeamishness of autofiction, living with borderline personality disorder, and setting his latest book in a recovery house for people experiencing mental health crises ✍️ Ellen Peirson-Hagger bit.ly/4gRjDIk
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Derek Owusu: ‘I’ve never figured out how to live in the w...
The novelist on the squeamishness of autofiction, living with borderline personality disorder, and setting his latest book in a recovery house for people experiencing mental health crises
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Less than two weeks until my 5th novel drop, The Recovery House.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A truly fascinating and enlightening meta synthesis on Borderline Personality Disorder as a disorder of temporality and how existence in time is distorted
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
♥️♥️
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Signs and Symbols
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What if God was one of us...
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What is going on at Picador that these books with incredibly racist descriptions are getting past their editors?!
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Is this actually PTSD? Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder
Some have argued BPD should be reclassified as a trauma disorder, maintaining those diagnosed are typically women with abuse in their past
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This film is so good I've watched it twice this morning. The Infinite Man. On par with Predestination and Palm Springs when it comes to time travel movies.
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Longreads @longreads.com · 07/12/2024
"When he started acting, that was his goal: to be an enigma, a shape-shifter, a performer who vanished into roles. The problem was that from the moment he became famous, audiences wanted something different." —Sam Parker for @gqmagazine.bsky.social #longreads www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jude...
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Jude Law’s beautiful disappearing act
For decades, he’s captivated audiences as a certain kind of character: charming. Handsome. Beautiful, even. So much so that people saw him that way, too. Now 51, and with a run of prestige talked-abou...
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Wow. Gladiator II is honestly terrible.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This symptom of borderline personality disorder (self-other mergence) is one of the main themes in my newest novel. If you can get past the jargon heavy prose, the study is quite insightful www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The word 'solipsism' now ranks up there with 'pretentious' as being almost meaningless when describing literature.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Ah, this is so fucking good.
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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Together with @irishpen.bsky.social and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, we’re delighted to announce Susannah Dickey’s ISDAL @picadorbooks.bsky.social as the winner of the inaugural #PENHeaneyPrize. Find out more ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/s...
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Susannah Dickey wins the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize - English PEN
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Veeeeery happy for Jo Hamya.
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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
‘I think there should be a National Service of Hospitality. The best way to see the true face of humanity is to serve it a plate of chips.’ Camilla Grudova on working in hospitality. granta.com/doing-the-wo...
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Doing the Work | Camilla Grudova | Granta
‘The places where you access culture are kept clean by a roster of workers, yet these people are rarely included in notions of cultural labour.’
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kurtis conner @kurtis-conner.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
there’s only 2 types of guys in this world: 1. guys named Derek 2. guys not named Derek
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
And now Mary, which I think, on the sentence level, is up there with Sebastian Knight.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/11/2024
Racially-minoritised creators should not bear the entire burden of driving change: industry-wide transformation is overdue, says Melanie Ramdarshan Bold 👇 www.thebookseller.com/comment/clpe... #BookSky
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‘Diversity’ in decline
When diversity in children’s literature is treated as a checkbox or a business decision, progress in representation comes under threat.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Very much looking forward to reading this after my Nabokov binge. Heard the prose is very flowery so I immediately went to Waterstones to buy it. Also, the @waterstones.bsky.social Booker Library is very very cool.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Honestly prefer 'I am the danger' over 'I am the one who knocks'
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
People who say they hate writing but love having written, I don't believe you.
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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
‘Lean, serious, impressive … Talty’s prose is exacting and balanced … it bristles with fiercely internalised feeling and enigmatic tension.’ Michael Donkor reviews Fire Exit by @morgantalty.bsky.social for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Green background featuring the And Other Stories ampersand logo and a quote, in black text, from Michael Donkor's Guardian review of Morgan Talty's novel Fire Exit. The quote reads: 'Lean, serious impressive ... Talty's prose is exacting and balanced.'
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Editing is never over.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Adults who need novels to develop empathy for those not in their line of sight are to me almost the same as those who think they need religious text to teach them how to be good people.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Cats on heat walking on my head in the middle of the night.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Not enjoying Laughter in the Dark anywhere near as much as Sebastian Knight but even still, Nabokov remains levels above most novelists.
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Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here we are
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