Diriye Osman [Visual Artist/Storyteller]
Photograph by Boris Mitkov.
Diriye Osman is a British-Somali visual artist and storyteller. He is the winner of the 2014 Polaris First Book Prize for his first book, Fairytales for Lost Children. Described as “powerful” and “raw” by the author Roxane Gay, Fairytales for Lost Children features short stories about Somali queer youth.
