Femi Osofisan

Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan ( born June 16, 1946 in Erunwon, Ogun ) is a Nigerian writer. He became internationally known mainly for his plays.

Life

Femi Osofisan attended from 1959 to 1965, the Government College in Ibadan. He then studied in Ibadan, Dakar and Paris French language and literature. At the University of Ibadan, he founded together with Niyi Osundare and Kole Omotoso a Marxist circle with the aim to renew the Nigerian literature. He demanded that contact the author directly to the masses and therefore chose after beginnings in prose and poetry, the theater. His plays are among the most frequently performed in Nigeria.

In 1973 and again since 2004 Osofisan is a professor of literature at the University of Ibadan. In 1988, he became president of the Nigerian Union of Writers ANA. For his poetry collection Minted Coins he received the Poetry Award of the ANA.

He transferred Aimé Césaire into English and Wole Soyinka into Yoruba and writes regularly as a journalist for newspapers and magazines.

Works

  • Kolera Kolej (1975, novel)
  • Somewhere in a War Period (1975, short stories )
  • A Restless Run of Locusts (1975, play )
  • Kijipa Ekun (1976, short stories )
  • Chattering and the Song (1976, play )
  • Once Upon Four Robbers (1977, play )
  • Morontodoun (1978, play )
  • Who's Afraid of Tai Solarin (1978, play )
  • Midnight Hotel (1985, Comedy )
  • Esu at the Vagabond Minstrels (1986, Comedy )
  • Another Raft (1988, play )
  • Aringidin and the Nightwatchmen (1992, play )
  • The Album of the Midnight Blackout ( 1994 plays)
  • The Oriki of A Grasshopper and Other Plays ( 1995 plays)
  • One Legend, Many Seasons ( 1996 plays)
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