Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek
BIO
Biography

100 Days (University of Alberta Press 2016)

A is for Acholi (Wolsak and Wynn 2022)

Song & Dread (Talonbooks 2023)

11 Metal Tongues (AGNES 2023)

We, the Kindling (Alchemy, Penguin Random House 2025)

ADDRESS
City: Kingston, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Short-listed - Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry for 100 Days
Publication
100 Days
Year
2017
Name
Winner - Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry Days
Publication
100 Days
Year
2017
Name
Short-listed - Canadian Authors Award for Poetry (Canadian Authors Association)
Publication
100 Days
Year
2017
Name
Short-listed - Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Publication
100 Days
Year
2017
Name
Winner - INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards (Poetry)
Publication
100 Days
Year
2017
Name
Short-listed - Pat Lowther Award (The League of Canadian Poets)
Publication
100 Days
Year
2017
Name
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (winner)
Publication
A is for Acholi
Year
2023
Name
Pat Lowther Memorial Award (finalist)
Publication
A is for Acholi
Year
2023
Name
Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
Publication
A is for Acholi
Year
2023
Name
Giller Prize (Longlist)
Publication
We, the Kindling
Year
2025
Name
Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Writers Trust
Publication
We, the Kindling
Year
2025
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