Feyisayo Anjorin
Author Interview - Feyisayo Anjorin
Author of The Stuff of Love Songs.
“Tolu's lover is a treasure in his heart, so the purity of his feelings flows. Bola has lived her life like a sweet dream sometimes in the past, and she is satisfied with her lover, but she fears for the familiar comforts of their relationship; so she throws her lover a seemingly minor challenge.Love Like Us, a popular romance game show on national TV, could work as a gift or a curse for lovers, due to its potential to unravel intimacy or lack of it.When Tolu and Bola, following Tolu's initiative, decide to appear on the show in order to give their relationship a brighter spark, they have to face deep-seated fears and irritating discoveries from the ruins of their past disappointments as they chart a new course for their union.”
Author Interview - Feyisayo Anjorin
Author I draw inspiration from: Alice Munro is such a great inspiration. She has a way with words that just touches my heart. I love Jonathan Franzen too. Reading him makes me want to write.
Author Interview - Feyisayo Anjorin
Favorite place to read a book: My perfect place to enjoy a book is on a hill, under the shade, for the cool breeze and the peace and quiet.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: I would want to spend that brief time with Odenigbo in Chimamanda Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun". He is such an eccentric and interesting man.
Author Interview - Feyisayo Anjorin
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: When I fell in love in my late teens, I started writing love songs, but I also knew that many stories could be born of the fate of love.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Paperback any day.
The last book I read: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Author Interview - Feyisayo Anjorin
Pen & paper or computer: Initially I resisted computers, but now, I only write with it. i cant bear transferring ideas from papers to computers. So I just feed them in straight.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Nate in John Grisham's "The Testament" is a man with many inner battles. Such a complex dude. I would love to meet him and be friends.
Author Interview - Feyisayo Anjorin
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: I guess I would be an actor; but I'm an author and an actor. Frequently changing the caps.
Favorite decade in fashion history: Give it to the eighties. The 80s were the very definition of cool.
Place I’d most like to travel: Give me Georgetown, Guyana, I also love Trinidad and Tobago
My signature drink: I drink water mostly. So, yeah, water.
Favorite artist: Backstreet Boys, like forever.
Number one on my bucket list: I would love to climb some hills in the Caribbean
Anything else you'd like to add: I am a 21st century explorer. And that's a lot of exploring, both in the real and virtual world.
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Author Bio: Feyisayo Anjorin was born in Akure, Nigeria. He trained as a filmmaker at AFDA Johannesburg. His writings have appeared in Brittle Paper, Litro, Bella Naija, Kalahari Review, and African Writer.
He is the author of "The Stuff of Love Songs", "The Night My Dead Girlfriend Called" and "Kasali's Africa"
