Derek Owusu has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott prize for his novel-in-verse That Reminds Me. The book is a semi-autobiographical tale of a British-Ghanaian boy called K. Owusu is a writer, poet and podcaster from north London. Before turning his hand to fiction, he collated, edited and contributed to Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space (Trapeze), an anthology of writing by 20 black British men.