Olumide Popoola

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Olúmìdé Pópóọlá (* 1975 ) is a Nigerian - German writer , performance artist and lecturer with a focus on hybrid literary forms and languages. She lives in London and writes in English .

Life

Olumide Popoola grew up as the daughter of a German mother and a Nigerian father in Germany and Nigeria. In 1994 she first appeared as a spoken word artist. In 1999 she and Beldan Sezen published the anthology Talking Home - Heimat from our own pen . In 2002 Popoola moved to London. She studied Creative Writing at the University of East London and obtained a Master of Arts degree in 2009 . She also did a Bachelor of Science in Ayurvedic Medicine .

In 2010 Popoola made her debut with the novella this is not about sadness , followed by the short theatrical text Also by Mail in 2013 . In 2014, nine of her poems appeared in the anthology Arriving in the Future: Stories of Home and Exile .

In 2015 Popoola received her Ph.D. from the University of East London . in creative writing. She taught creative writing a. a. at Goldsmiths, University of London . She also worked in the youth program of a London community center, which was the starting point for her novel When We Speak of Nothing (2017). In 2018 she curated the literature festival Writing in Migration. African Book Festival Berlin .

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

Awards

  • 2004 May Ayim Award for Black Literature in Germany (Category: Poetry)

Works

  • this is not about sadness (novella), Unrast Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89771-602-5 .
  • Also by Mail (play), edition assemblage, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-942885-38-6 .
  • traveling ; the trouble with violence ; lineage ; when over ; of matters ; was on ; delta oils ; current affairs: urgencies and fleeting (poems) in: Asoka Esuruoso and Philipp Khabo Koepsell (eds.), Arriving in the Future: Stories of Home and Exile , epubli, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-9210-7 (p 58-71).
  • Breach (short stories) with Annie Holmes , Peirene Press, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-908670-32-8 .
  • When we Speak of Nothing (Roman), Abuja and London, Cassava Republic Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-911115-45-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heinrich Böll Foundation, biography of Olumide Popoola , accessed April 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Interview with Olumide Popoola on Deutsche Welle (September 1, 2017); Online copy , accessed April 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ Interview: I want people seduced by the melody of my prose, says author Olumide Popoola , The Cable Lifestyle (August 13, 2017), accessed April 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Interview: Olumide Popoola - I bring wild, rich imagination to life , The Guardian (September 23, 2017), accessed April 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Sabine Rohlf, Writing in Migration: An African Literature Festival is taking place in Babylon , Berliner Zeitung (April 25, 2018), accessed April 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Popoola, Olumide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popoola, Olumide, Olutoyin Mykola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975