Lola Shoneyin

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Lola Shoneyin (2015)

Lola Shoneyin (born February 26, 1974 in Ibadan ) is a Nigerian writer.

Life

Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin grew up in a manorial family. Her maternal grandfather was a tribal chief in the Ogun region who ruled since 1938 and had five wives. The Nigerian Nobel Prize for Literature Wole Soyinka is her father-in-law.

Shoneyin attended various boarding schools in Edinburgh and Bristol in the UK, returned to Nigeria and graduated from Ibadan. She studied at Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago Iwoye and received a BA in 1995

Her first volume of poetry, So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg , was published in 1995. In 1999, Shoneyin attended a literature class at the Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2005 she graduated from London with a teaching degree.

Her novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives was published in Great Britain in 2010. In the novel, Baba Segi's four wives begin to practice independence, so that Segi recommends monogamy to his son in the end.

2019 it was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.

Shoneyin is a teacher at an international school in Abuja . She lives in Lagos with her husband and four children . She has been organizing the Aké Arts and Book Festival since 2013, initially in Abeokuta and since 2018 in Lagos.

Works (selection)

  • So All the Time I was Sitting on an Egg . Poetry. Ibadan: Ovalonion House, 1995
  • Song of a Riverbird . Poetry. Ibadan: Ovalonion House, 2002
  • For the love of flight . Poetry. 2010.
  • Mayowa and the Masquerades . Illustrations Francis Blake. Children's book. London: Cassava Republic Press, 2010
  • The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives . London: Serpent's Tail, 2010
    • The secret lives of the women of Baba Segi . Translation from the English Susann Urban. Frankfurt am Main: Ed. Book Guild, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claudia Kramatschek: turmoil in the harem . Review , in: NZZ , October 4, 2014, p. 9
  2. ↑ Fantastical Futures | Ake Festival 2018 Will Focus on a Re-Imagined Africa. In: Brittle Paper. June 23, 2018, accessed October 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shoneyin, Lola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibadan