{"id":2103,"date":"2022-12-12T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T12:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/beckett\/?page_id=2103"},"modified":"2023-04-13T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:12:24","slug":"simon-okotie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/beckett\/simon-okotie\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Okotie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simon Okotie<\/strong>\u00a0is a fiction writer and essayist. He is the author of\u00a0Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?<\/em>,\u00a0In the Absence of Absalon<\/em>, and\u00a0After Absalon<\/em>, an acclaimed trilogy of novels, all published by Salt.\u00a0In the Absence of Absalon<\/em>\u00a0was longlisted for the\u00a02018\u00a0Republic of Consciousness Prize. Simon\u2019s work has appeared in\u00a0gorse<\/em>,\u00a03:AM Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0Firmament\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The White Review<\/em>.\u00a0\u2018Two Degrees of Freedom,\u2019 a short story,\u00a0is\u00a0published by Nightjar Press.\u00a0\u2018Bindings\u2019\u00a0was selected for the\u00a0Best British Short Stories 2021<\/em>\u00a0anthology.<\/p>\n

Of the protagonist of\u00a0Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?<\/em>\u00a0Blake Morrison notes in the\u00a0London Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>that \u2018There\u2019s a touch of Charlie Chaplin about him, or of John Cleese, as mediated by Beckett\u2019. Okotie readily acknowledges the influence of Beckett on his work, and in particular the later short prose and \u2018closed space\u2019 pieces. The\u00a0TLS<\/em> has drawn attention to Simon\u2019s \u2018obsessive attention to the miraculous geometries of human movement\u2019 and this is just one way in which his writing shows an affinity with Beckett\u2019s. Simon is currently completing a novel and\u00a0a collection of essays.<\/p>\n

Simon has also been reflecting on his experience with the Beckett materials in the archive. Click here<\/a> to read Simon's In Search of The Lost Ones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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