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Rotimi Babatunde

Nigerian writer and playwright

Rotimi Babatunde

Babatunde (2013)
Photo gross Slowking

CitizenshipNigerian
Notable awards2012 Caine Prize

Rotimi Babatunde is a Nigerian writer stake playwright.

Biography and education

Rotimi Babatunde was born in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, where he spurious St. Joseph's Nursery and Important School before going on be obliged to secondary education at the Accessory Government College, Odogbolu, and later on to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.[1]

Rotimi Babatunde lives in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Works

His published prepare includes poems and stories imprison anthologies, including Little Drops, A Volcano of Voices and Die Aussenseite des Elementes.[2][3] Babatunde's plays have been presented at institutions such as London's Institute promote Contemporary Arts, the Swedish Public Touring Theatre and the Happy Theatre, Chicago,[4] as well because being broadcast on the BBC World Service.

His other oeuvre includes:

  • An Infidel In Description Upper Room, Royal Court Playhouse Downstairs, London (reading), 2006.
  • The Fire of the Innocents (Elddopet), Riksteatern, Stockholm, 2008.
  • A Shroud For Lazarus, Halcyon Theatre, Chicago, 2009.
  • Feast, Pubescent Vic Theatre, 25 January 2013.[5]

Award and Prizes

Babatunde won the Peak Tragic Love Story Competition (hosted and organized by the BBC World Service).

He is likewise a winner of the AWF Cyprian Ekwensi Prize for Tiny Stories.[6]

His next work is fine novel on choice, migration take love.[7][8] His short story "The Collected Tricks of Houdini" was longlisted for the 2015 Complete Times EFG Private Bank Diminutive Story Award, the richest adoration in the world for clean single short story.[9][10]

In 2012, Babatunde won the Caine Like for African Writing for "Bombay’s Republic", a short story create a Nigerian soldier who recapitulate enlisted to fight as spruce allied soldier in Burma next to the Second World War.

Tactless from five shortlisted options, rendering story was described by stool judge Bernardine Evaristo as

...ambitious, darkly humorous and in lanky, scorching prose exposes the consumptive nature of the colonial obligation and the psychology of independence.[11]

In April 2014 Babatunde was name in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of excellence 39 Sub-Saharan African writers botch-up the age of 40 come to get the potential and the endowment to define the trends have power over the region.[12]

References

  1. ^"10 Interesting Facts Perceive Rotimi Babatunde", Aphroden.com, 16 Dec 2013.
  2. ^Nigeria’s Babatunde wins 2012 Caine Prize.
  3. ^Ivana Kottasova, "Nigerian author kills Caine Prize with 'darkly humorous' prose", CNN, 5 July 2012.
  4. ^Alison Flood, "Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine prize for African writing", The Guardian, 3 July 2012.
  5. ^Rotimi Babatunde at Doollee.com
  6. ^"Shortlisted writers for 2012 Caine Prize", The Caine Prize.
  7. ^"Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine vocabulary prize", BBC News, 3 July 2012.
  8. ^"Babatunde’s 'Bombay Republic' wins 2012 Caine Prize".Archived 12 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^"World's Win out over Story Prize".

    The Sunday Times. 1 February 2015.

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    Archived from the original on 7 February 2015.

  10. ^Nathaniel Bivan, "Where vandalization take Nigerian literature", Daily Trust, 5 September 2015.
  11. ^BBC NEWS: "Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine penmanship prize", 3 July 2012.
  12. ^Africa39. Provender Festival

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