Isidore Okpewho

Isidore Okpewho (born 1941 in Abraka, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist, and critic.^[1] He won the 1976 African Arts Prize for Literature, and 1993 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Africa.

Life

He graduated from the University of London, and from the University of Denver with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, and from the University of London with a D.Lit. in the Humanities. He taught at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York from 1974 to 1976, University of Ibadan from 1976 to 1990, Harvard University from 1990 to 1991, and Binghamton University.^[2]

He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1982, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1982, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1988, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute in 1990, National Humanities Center in 1997, and 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.^[3]

Works

Novels

• The Victims, Longman, 1970, ISBN 978-0-582-64075-7
• The Last Duty Longman, 1976; Longman, 1986, ISBN 978-0-582-78535-9
• Tides, Longman, 1993, ISBN 978-0-582-10276-7
• Call Me By My Rightful Name, Africa World Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-59221-191-3

Non-fiction

• The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance, Columbia University Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-231-04400-4
• Myth in Africa: A Study of Its Aesthetic and Cultural Relevance. CUP Archive. 1983. ISBN 978-0-521-27476-0. 
• African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity. Indiana University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-253-20710-4. 
• Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity. Indiana University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-253-21189-7. 

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