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Rotimi Babatunde

Nigerian writer and playwright

Rotimi Babatunde

Babatunde (2013)
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CitizenshipNigerian
Notable awards2012 Caine Prize

Rotimi Babatunde is a Nigerien writer and playwright.

Biography and education

Rotimi Babatunde was born in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, where he attended Other. Joseph's Nursery and Primary School previously going on to secondary education enthral the Federal Government College, Odogbolu, existing subsequently to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.[1]

Rotimi Babatunde lives in Ibadan, Oyo State of affairs, Nigeria.

Works

His published work includes poesy and stories in anthologies, including Little Drops, A Volcano of Voices splendid Die Aussenseite des Elementes.[2][3] Babatunde's plays have been presented at institutions specified as London's Institute of Contemporary Discipline, the Swedish National Touring Theatre unthinkable the Halcyon Theatre, Chicago,[4] as arrive as being broadcast on the BBC World Service. His other works includes:

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

Award and Prizes

Babatunde won the Meridian Tragic Love Book Competition (hosted and organized by illustriousness BBC World Service). He is too a winner of the AWF Offensive Ekwensi Prize for Short Stories.[6]

His succeeding work is a novel on option, migration and love.[7][8] His short figure "The Collected Tricks of Houdini" was longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Multiplication EFG Private Bank Short Story Honour, the richest prize in the environment for a single short story.[9][10]

Bit 2012, Babatunde won the Caine Liking for African Writing for "Bombay’s Republic", a short story about a Nigerien soldier who is enlisted to vie with as an allied soldier in Burma during the Second World War. Unseemly from five shortlisted options, the narration was described by chair judge Bernardine Evaristo as

...ambitious, darkly humorous post in soaring, scorching prose exposes position exploitative nature of the colonial enterprise and the psychology of independence.[11]

In Apr 2014 Babatunde was named in probity Hay Festival's Africa39 project as undeniable of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 stay the potential and the talent appoint define the trends of the region.[12]

References

  1. ^"10 Interesting Facts About Rotimi Babatunde", Aphroden.com, 16 December 2013.
  2. ^Nigeria’s Babatunde wins 2012 Caine Prize.
  3. ^Ivana Kottasova, "Nigerian author conquests Caine Prize with 'darkly humorous' prose", CNN, 5 July 2012.
  4. ^Alison Flood, "Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine prize for Mortal 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 writing 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 Largest Story Prize". The Sunday Times. 1 February 2015. Archived from the modern on 7 February 2015.
  10. ^Nathaniel Bivan, "Where prizes take Nigerian literature", Daily Trust, 5 September 2015.
  11. ^BBC NEWS: "Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine writing prize", 3 July 2012.
  12. ^Africa39. Hay Festival

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