diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/gpt-2-simple/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/gpt-2-simple/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..68f8cba8dc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/gpt-2-simple/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, regex, requests, tqdm, numpy
+, toposort, tensorflow }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "gpt-2-simple";
+  version = "0.8.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "minimaxir";
+    repo = "gpt-2-simple";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-WwD4sDcc28zXEOISJsq8e+rgaNrrgIy79Wa4J3E7Ovc=";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ regex requests tqdm numpy toposort tensorflow ];
+
+  dontCheck = true; # no tests in upstream
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description =
+      "Easily retrain OpenAI's GPT-2 text-generating model on new texts";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ckie ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 738008ce9c7..13d0c0beaca 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3626,6 +3626,8 @@ in {
 
   gpy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gpy { };
 
+  gpt-2-simple = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gpt-2-simple { };
+
   gpyopt = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gpyopt { };
 
   gql = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gql { };