Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola ( born June 20, 1920 in Abeokuta, † June 8, 1997 in Ibadan ) was a Nigerian writer.

Life

Amos Tutuola, the son of a Christian family from the Yoruba ethnic group, worked for a short, only six years of primary school as a coppersmith and during the Second World War as a mechanic of the Royal Air Force. After that, he was an office boy in the labor department and warehouse workers for the Nigerian Broadcasting. During this time, 1953, appeared Tutuola 's first novel, The Palm - Wine Drinkard ( The palm wine drinkers ), in which a mysterious wanderer reported by the magical creatures who have met him in his wanderings. The fairy-tale, the mythology of the Yoruba aufgreifende work is the traditions of oral storytelling obligated written in incorrect English and disregards the rules of modern, realism committed novel. Nevertheless, or perhaps because Tutuola novel contradicted the goals of fighting for international recognition African intellectuals, his main work was often cited and had an influential literature on the younger generations. In its home country Tutuola was often criticized for his support prejudices of the West for Africa's allegedly primitive so; only after his success began his works to be translated into Yoruba. In France, first you wrote his work to his translator Raymond Queneau and held Amos Tutuola for a new pseudonym.

In 1979 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Ile- Ife as well as participants in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He returned in 1980 back to Ibadan, where he died in 1997 of complications from high blood pressure and diabetes.

Works

  • The Palm - Wine Drinkard (1946, published in 1952; German The Palm Wine Drinkers 1994)
  • My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954, German My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 1991)
  • The Brave African Huntress (1958 )
  • Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle (1962 )
  • Feather Woman of the Jungle (1962 )
  • Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty (1967 )
  • The Witch Herbalist of the Remote Town ( 1981)
  • Yoruba Folk Tales ( 1986)
  • Pauper, Brawler and slanderer (1987 )
  • The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories (1990, short stories )
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