Funso Aiyejina
Funso Aiyejina (born 1949 in Ososo, Edo State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian poet, short story writer, playwright, and Dean of Humanities and Education, at the University of the West Indies.[1] His collection of short fiction, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories, won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa).[2]
He graduated from the University of Ife in Nigeria, Acadia University in Canada, and the University of the West Indies.[3] He taught at Obafemi Awolowo University[4], and since 1990 at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. In 1995-6, he was Fulbright Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Works
Poetry
- A Letter to Lynda and Other Poems, Saros International Publishers, 1988 (Association of Nigerian Authors Prize, 1989); Lightning Source Inc, 2006, ISBN 9781856571067
- I, The Supreme and Other Poems (2004)
Short stories
- The Legend of the Rockhills and other stories, TSAR, 1999, ISBN 9780920661789
Plays
- The Character Who Walked Out On His Author,
Editor
- A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelace (2008)
- Funso Aiyejina, Paula Morgan, ed (2006). Caribbean Literature in a Global Context. Lexicon.
- Earl Lovelace: Growing in the Dark (Selected Essays)(2003)
- Self-Portrait: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics, University of the West Indies, 2003, ISBN 9789766201821
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