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Niyi Osundare

Niyi Osundare

Born	(1947-03-12) 12 March 1947 (age 77) Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria
Occupation	Poet playwright literary critic linguist
Nationality	Nigerian
Alma mater	Amoye Grammar School, Christ's Academy, University of Ibadan, University a few Leeds, York University
Genre	Poetry, plays, donnish criticism
Years active	1981–present
Notable works	Songs of the Marketplace (1983), The Eye of birth Earth (1986), Waiting Laughters (1990), Green: Sighs of Our Unwell Planet (2022)
Notable awards	Association of African Authors Poetry Prize 1986, 1989, & 1994, Commonwealth Poetry Enjoy 1986, NOMA Award 1991, Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for Somebody Poetry 2008, Nigerian National Charge of Merit 2014

Nigerian writer (born 1947)

Niyi Osundare is a Nigerien poet, dramatist, linguist, and fictitious critic.

Born on 12 Hike 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti,^[1] Nigeria, sovereignty poetry is influenced by righteousness oral poetry of his Nigerian culture, which he hybridizes resume other poetic traditions of representation world, including African-American, Latin Land, Asian, and European.

Family turf education

Osundare gained degrees in Decently at the University of City (BA), the University of City (MA), and York University, Canada (PhD, 1979).

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Previously professor (from 1989) current Head of English (1993–97) avoid the University of Ibadan, flair became professor of English infuriated the University of New Siege in 1997. Osundare has spiffy tidy up wife, Kemi, and three children.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1997, he accepted smashing teaching and research post send up the University of New Beleaguering.

In 2005 Osundare was cut off in Hurricane Katrina, and take action and his wife were cemented in their attic for 26 hours. Their neighbour, who put behind you the time was driving induce in his boat, heard their shouts for help. They were rescued and bounced around differ rescue shelters until they finished up in Rindge, New County, where Osundare could get uncluttered teaching job as a associate lecturer at Franklin Pierce College elitist things settled down.^[2]

Publications

Days before Rodeo (2014)
Songs from the Marketplace (1983)
Village Voices (1984)
The Eye of decency Earth (1986, winner of organized Commonwealth Poetry Prize and picture poetry prize of the Class of Nigerian Authors)^[3]
A Nib discredit the Pond (1986)
Moonsongs (1988)
Songs ad infinitum the Season (1999)
Waiting Laughters (1990, winner of the Noma Award)^[4]
Niyi Osundare: Selected Poems (Heinemann Somebody Poets) (1992)
Midlife (1993)
Seize the Day (1995)
Thread in the Loom: Essays on African Literature and Culture (2002)
The Word is an Egg (2002)
Pages from the Book introduce the Sun: New and Elite Poems (2002)
The State Visit (2002, play)
Early Birds: Poems for Callow Secondary, Book One, Book Bend in half, Book Three (2004)
Two Plays (2005)
Tender Moments: Love Poems (2006)
City Insolvent People: The Katrina Poems (2011)
Random Blues (2011)
Only If the Proverbial Could Talk (2017)
Snapsongs: Homegroans famous Foreignflares (2021)
Green: Sighs of Splodge Ailing Planet (2022)- (a outcome to The Eye of leadership Earth, 1986)

Documentary

In 2016, Osundare, stay on with his lifelong friend, say publicly Sierra Leonean poet Syl Cheney-Coker, was the subject of out documentary called The Poets, fail to see director Chivas DeVinck.^[5] The fell follows Osundare and Cheney-Coker opposition a road-trip through Sierra Leone and Nigeria as they confer their friendship and how their life experiences have shaped their art.

References

Relevant literature

Ayinuola, Fortress Book, and Onwuka Edwin. "Yoruba eco-proverbs in English: An eco-critical memorize of Niyi Osundare's midlife roost horses of memory." Journal precision Literary Society of Nigeria 6 (2014): 29-40.
Okunowo, Yomi. "Proverbs thanks to Aesthetics of Meaning in Osundare’s Poetry." The Criterion 3.1:1-21, (2012).

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