Femi Osofisan

Femi Osofisan NNOM

Femi Osofisan

Babáfẹ́mi Adéyẹmí Òsófìsán, tí wọ́n tún máa ń pè ní Fẹ́mi Òsófìsàn tàbí F.O Listen jẹ́ ọmọ orílẹ̀-èdè Nàìjíríà tí wọ́n bí ní ọjọ́ kẹrìndìnlógún, oṣù kẹfà, ọdún 1946, jẹ́ òǹkọ̀wé, lámèyítọ́ eré tíátà. Wọ́n mọ̀ ọ́n sí oníṣẹ́ lámèyítọ́ àwùjọ ilẹ̀ Áfíríkà nínù àwọn eré àpilẹ̀kọ rẹ̀. Púpọ̀ nínú àwọn àpilẹ̀kọ tí ó ti kọ ni ó máa ń dá lé àgbéyẹ̀wò ire àti ibi. Fẹmi jẹ àfìtàn-kọ́ni-níwà tí àwọn àpilẹ̀kọ rẹ̀ máa ń wá àtúnṣe àti ojútùú sí ìbàjẹ́ àwùjọ. Ó ti kọ ewì lábẹ́ ìnagijẹ Okinba Launko.

Àwọn àṣàyàn iṣẹ́ rèé

• Kolera Kolej. New Horn, 1975.^{[citation needed]}
• The Chattering and the Song. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1977.
• Morountodun and Other Plays. Lagos: Longman, 1982.
• Minted Coins (poetry), Heinemann, 1987.
• Another Raft. Lagos: Malthouse, 1988.
• Once upon Four Robbers. Ibadan: Heinemann, 1991
• Twingle-Twangle A-Twynning Tayle. Longman, 1992.
• Yungba-Yungba and the Dance Contest: A Parable for Our Times, Heinemann Educational, Nigeria, 1993.
• The Album of the Midnight Blackout, University Press, Nigeria, 1994.
• "Warriors of a Failed Utopia? West African writers since the 70s" in Leeds African Studies Bulletin 61 (1996), pp. 11–36.
• Tegonni: An African Antigone. Ibadan: Opon Ifa, 1999.
• "Theater and the Rites of 'Post-Negritude' Remembering". Research in African Literatures 30.1 (1999): 1–11.
• "Love's Unlike Lading: A Comedy from Shakespeare". Lagos: Concept Publications. 2012
• "One Legend, Many seasons". Lagos: Concept Publications. 2001

Àmín ẹ̀yẹ

• 2015: PAWA Membership Honorary Award
• 2016: Thalia Prize from the International Association of Theatre Critics