Amatoritsero Ede
NationalityNigerian, Canadian
Other namesGodwin Ede
OccupationPoet

Amatoritsero 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. 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. He has a BA and MA in Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and German Linguistics from the University of Hanover, Germany.

Prizes

  • 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

Research articles

Poetry collections

  • 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

Poems in journals

  • 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)

Literary nonfiction in anthologies

Literary nonfiction in journals

References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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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