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Amatoritsero Ede

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Amatoritsero Ede
Born1973 (age 50–51)
NationalityNigerian, Canadian
Other namesGodwin Ede
OccupationPoet

Amatoritsero "Godwin" Ede is a Nigerian-Canadian poet. He had written under the name "Godwin Ede" but he stopped bearing his Christian first name as a way to protest the xenophobia and racism he noted in Germany, a "Christian" country, and to an extent, to protest Western colonialism in general.[1] Ede has lived in Canada since 2002, sponsored as a writer-in-exile by PEN Canada. He was a Hindu Monk with the Hare Krishna Movement, and has worked as a Book Editor with a major Nigerian trade publisher, Spectrum Books.

Ede is the publisher and managing editor of Maple Tree Literary Supplement (MTLS).[2] Between 2005 and 2007 he edited an international online poetry journal, Sentinel Poetry Online.[3][4] He was the 2005–2006 Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, under the auspices of PEN Canada's Writer-in-Exile network. He was also a SSHRC Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in English literature at Carleton University, from which he received in his PhD in 2013.[citation needed] His doctoral thesis was titled "The Global Literary Canon and Minor African Literatures," a cultural materialist analysis of the subordination of contemporary African literature to the metropolitan canon.[citation needed] He has a BA and MA in Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and German Linguistics from the University of Hanover, Germany.[citation needed]

Prizes

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  • 1993: Runner-up prize of the Association of Nigerian Authors' (ANA) Poetry Competition with the manuscript of "A Writer's Pains."[5]
  • 1998: Won the All-Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature with his first collection of poems[6]
  • 1998: Won the ANA All Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature (endowed by Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Laureate for literature) with his first collection of poems[1]
  • 2004: Won second prize in the first May Ayim Award: International Black German Literary Prize.[6]
  • 2013: Nigeria Prize for Literature Longlist[7]

Publications

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Research articles

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Poetry collections

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  • 2009: Globetrotter & Hitler's Children (New York: Akaschic Books, 2009).
  • 1998: Collected Poems: A Writer's Pains & Caribbean Blues (Bremen, Germany: Yeti Press, 1998; Lagos, Nigeria: Oracle Books, 2002).

Poems in anthologies

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Poems in journals

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  • 2003: Poems in Versal 1. Amsterdam.
  • 2006: Poems in Drum Voices Revue. Vol. 14, Issues 1 & 2: *2006:. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA.
  • 2011–2012: Poems in African Writing. Issues 2, 3, 4, 7 & 8

Interviews (by George Elliott Clarke)

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Literary nonfiction in anthologies

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Literary nonfiction in journals

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References

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  1. ^ a b Azuonye, Nnorom (2004). "MY E-CONVERSATION WITH AMATORITSERO EDE". Sentinel Poetry. No. 16. p. 16. ISSN 1479-425X. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  2. ^ Lawrence, Onwuama (August 30, 2017). "Poetic Icon". POETic BANE. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Writers in Exile (Nigeria), PEN Canada". Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
  4. ^ "Carleton hosts writer-in-exile, Carleton University". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
  5. ^ "Amatoritsero Ede: , and a List of Books by Author Amatoritsero Ede". www.paperbackswap.com. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  6. ^ a b "African Writing Online; Poetry; Amatoritsero Ede;". www.african-writing.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Amatoritsero Ede". Diaspora Dialogues. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
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