Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I'm so happy! I had the pleasure of chatting with Derek Owusu.
Derek is not only the author of That Reminds Me (Winner of the 2022 Desmond Elliot Prize) but also Losing the Plot. He was most recently named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist. Check out my interview with him where we chat about sexy summer reads, his novels, the author as a commodity and more!
Follow Derek on IG here: instagram.com/derekowusuwrites
✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com
✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran
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0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Asking the hard hitting questions
2:32 - The Family Unit & Voice
10:24 - Taking Writing Seriously & Routines
18:45 - Is The Great Gatsby the Greatest Novel Ever Written
23:08 - After style, what comes next?
26:10 - Derek's next novel! Get all the tea now!
28:20 - Getting through your reading goals!
28:50 - Booktok!!!!!!!!
30:24 - The author as commodity
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Curious about the Granta list? Check out my video here: youtube.com/watch?v=PA-WJKEeySs&t=16s&ab_channel=kiranreader
The Best of Young British Novelists List includes: Graeme Armstrong, Jennifer Atkins, Sara Baume, Sarah Bernstein, Natasha Brown, Eleanor Catton, Eliza Clark, Tom Crewe, Lauren Aimee Curtis, Camilla Grudova, Isabella Hammad, Sophie Mackintosh, Anna Metcalfe, Thomas Morris, Derek Owusu, K Patrick, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Saba Sams, Olivia Sudjic and Eley Williams.
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Derek Owusu on Reading & Writing | Interviewing Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist
#authorinterviews #booktube #derekowusu #books #granta #bookreview #bookpromoter
On Kiran Reader’s Youtube Channel you will get all things literature, travel, lifestyle vlogs, art gallery snippets, content from fashion shows and more - Kiran Reader reviews books from the most popular authors like Salman Rushdie, Ottessa Moshfegh, W. Somerset Maugham, Dennis Johnson, Eve Babitz, Fleur Jaggy, and more. She likes translated fiction, contemporary fiction, Russian literature, classics, some fantasy, the occasional romance book, plenty of non-fiction - what can we say? She’s with it all. (Cue Pop Smoke reference). Check out this monthly wrap up book video - one of many reading wrap-ups. Find out “What I read this mont” and “what I read this week” by watching my wrap up video.
Kiran Reader reacts and predicts to a lot of things, especially the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize which includes former long listed authors like Olga Tokarczuk, Han Kang, Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, and more. Punjabi American book tuber Kiran Reader collaborates with some of the most ienresting book tube creators. Some of this channel’s most popular videos:
“Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh 🐑🪺📚 Character Analysis, Shrek Comparisons and More”
“Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize: A Series #13”
“the BEST of books 2022!!!!! (literary fiction + nonfiction and RESOLUTIONS)”
“Heaven by Mieko Kawakami 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist: A Series #6”
Her most popular Short include a video of Naomi Cambell, a video of Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber, travel clips from Cappadocia, Turkey and the famous Cedric Grolet London cookie.
I'm so happy! I had the pleasure of chatting with Derek Owusu.
Derek is not only the author of That Reminds Me (Winner of the 2022 Desmond Elliot Prize) but also Losing the Plot. He was most recently named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist. Check out my interview with him where we chat about sexy summer reads, his novels, the author as a commodity and more!
Follow Derek on IG here: instagram.com/derekowusuwrites
✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com
✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran
--------------------
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Asking the hard hitting questions
2:32 - The Family Unit & Voice
10:24 - Taking Writing Seriously & Routines
18:45 - Is The Great Gatsby the Greatest Novel Ever Written
23:08 - After style, what comes next?
26:10 - Derek's next novel! Get all the tea now!
28:20 - Getting through your reading goals!
28:50 - Booktok!!!!!!!!
30:24 - The author as commodity
--------------------
Curious about the Granta list? Check out my video here: youtube.com/watch?v=PA-WJKEeySs&t=16s&ab_channel=kiranreader
The Best of Young British Novelists List includes: Graeme Armstrong, Jennifer Atkins, Sara Baume, Sarah Bernstein, Natasha Brown, Eleanor Catton, Eliza Clark, Tom Crewe, Lauren Aimee Curtis, Camilla Grudova, Isabella Hammad, Sophie Mackintosh, Anna Metcalfe, Thomas Morris, Derek Owusu, K Patrick, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Saba Sams, Olivia Sudjic and Eley Williams.
🧿🧿🧿
Derek Owusu on Reading & Writing | Interviewing Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist
#authorinterviews #booktube #derekowusu #books #granta #bookreview #bookpromoter
On Kiran Reader’s Youtube Channel you will get all things literature, travel, lifestyle vlogs, art gallery snippets, content from fashion shows and more - Kiran Reader reviews books from the most popular authors like Salman Rushdie, Ottessa Moshfegh, W. Somerset Maugham, Dennis Johnson, Eve Babitz, Fleur Jaggy, and more. She likes translated fiction, contemporary fiction, Russian literature, classics, some fantasy, the occasional romance book, plenty of non-fiction - what can we say? She’s with it all. (Cue Pop Smoke reference). Check out this monthly wrap up book video - one of many reading wrap-ups. Find out “What I read this mont” and “what I read this week” by watching my wrap up video.
Kiran Reader reacts and predicts to a lot of things, especially the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize which includes former long listed authors like Olga Tokarczuk, Han Kang, Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, and more. Punjabi American book tuber Kiran Reader collaborates with some of the most ienresting book tube creators. Some of this channel’s most popular videos:
“Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh 🐑🪺📚 Character Analysis, Shrek Comparisons and More”
“Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize: A Series #13”
“the BEST of books 2022!!!!! (literary fiction + nonfiction and RESOLUTIONS)”
“Heaven by Mieko Kawakami 📚 Reading The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist: A Series #6”
Her most popular Short include a video of Naomi Cambell, a video of Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber, travel clips from Cappadocia, Turkey and the famous Cedric Grolet London cookie.
