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Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by LegendHero(m): 9:17pm On Jun 20, 2022
Tolu Oloruntoba has been announced among the winners of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. While Oloruntoba won the Canadian prize, Douglas Kearney was the international winner for his collection Sho, which was a U.S. National Book Award Finalist 2021.

Tolu Oloruntoba’s ‘The Junta of Happenstance’ won the Canadian winner of the prize for 2022.

Oloruntoba is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and poet who practiced medicine for six years and has harbored a love for writing poetry since he was 16. Oloruntoba’s poems explore the struggles of diasporic peoples around the globe as they traverse both land and cultures. He wins the 65,000 Canadian Dollars cash prize.

‘The Junta of Happenstance’ previously won the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry and was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and Raymond Souster Award.

The Griffin Poetry Prize is the world’s largest international prize for a first edition single collection of poetry written in or translated into English. The Canada-based prize was founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin in 2000. The award has geographical categories with one for a Canadian poet and one international poet who writes in the English language. Some previous winners have been Anne Carson, Nikolai Popov, Kamau Brathwaite, and Canisia Lubrin.

The judges of the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize were Adam Dickinson from Canada, Valzhyna Mort from Belarus and the U.S., and Claudia Rankine from Jamaica and the U.S. The panel read 639 books of poetry from 16 countries to make the shortlists which were announced on April 13.

The Canadian edition had Liz Howard, Tolu Oloruntoba and David Bradford while the international one had Catalan writer Gemma Gorga, translated from Catalan by Sharon Dolin, Ukrainian writer Natalka Bilotserkivets, translated from Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky as well as U.S. poets Douglas Kearney and Ed Roberson.

Source: https://dailytrust.com/oloruntoba-wins-canadas-griffin-poetry-prize-2022

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Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Kurutinto(m): 9:17pm On Jun 20, 2022
Nice

Igbos making wave everywhere they go, while our oil soup brothers keep exporting fraud and yahoo on the go
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by StaffofOrayan(m): 9:19pm On Jun 20, 2022
Na we get arts.... normally...
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Reinamaria(f): 9:20pm On Jun 20, 2022
Kurutinto:
Nice

Igbos making wave everywhere they go, while our oil soup brothers keep exporting fraud and yahoo on the go

Stop this tribal nonsense!

You must not type if you don't have anything sensible to type.

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Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Kurutinto(m): 9:21pm On Jun 20, 2022
Reinamaria:


Stop this tribal nonsense!

You must not type if you don't have anything sensible to type.

Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Reinamaria(f): 9:25pm On Jun 20, 2022
Kurutinto:



Precisely what you are!
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Kurutinto(m): 9:25pm On Jun 20, 2022
Reinamaria:


Precisely what you are!

Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by iyapont: 9:26pm On Jun 20, 2022
Great one omo wa
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by omenka(m): 9:28pm On Jun 20, 2022
God bless Omoluabi.

God bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR (2023).

God bless the West, the Middle Belt, North East, North West, and South South.

Amen. cool

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Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by YorubaIsGreat(m): 9:29pm On Jun 20, 2022
Keep making Yoruba proud
May God continue to bless Yoruba land

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Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Stargangz: 9:33pm On Jun 20, 2022
O'dua amaka grin
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Stargangz: 9:37pm On Jun 20, 2022
Kurutinto:
Nice

Igbos making wave everywhere they go, while our oil soup brothers keep exporting fraud and yahoo on the go
I don dey tell u say loud no good for body, can u see ur life

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Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by QueenOfTheCoast(f): 9:42pm On Jun 20, 2022
omenka:
God bless Omoluabi.

God bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR (2023).

God bless the West, the Middle Belt, North East, North West, and South South.

Amen. cool
be Obidient
it'll do you good and that of your generation.
Election no be intertribe competition
it's an avenue to better ourselves and our generation.
suffering knows no tribe.
Apc government have proven that Nigeria doesn't need them and promoting them again is a very big disservice to the country you claim to love.
Apc have failed.
you have to kiss this truth bro.
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by QueenOfTheCoast(f): 9:42pm On Jun 20, 2022
omenka:
God bless Omoluabi.

God bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR (2023).

God bless the West, the Middle Belt, North East, North West, and South South.

Amen. cool
the youths are coming

they have no manifestos to campaign with apart from their usual old tribalism and tribal card tactics.

But we'll remind them that tribalism won't bring back dollars to at least 400
tribalism won't bring back fuel to 95 naira
tribalism won't send our undergraduates back to school.
tribalism won't fix our security.
tribalism won't develop our economy.

since suffering knows no tribe or religion, since we're suffering together irrespective of our tribe and religion, it's also fair if we get it right together by sending thieves and those who thinks they can rape Nigeria TURN by TURN.
Enough is Enough!!!

2023 will be the youths vs the criminals
it won't be business as usual.
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by 9gerian: 10:36pm On Jun 20, 2022
Tolu Oloruntoba is Yoruba to the core- both first and last names.

Why the mischief though?

Kurutinto:
Nice

Igbos making wave everywhere they go, while our oil soup brothers keep exporting fraud and yahoo on the go
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by haffaze777(m): 6:45am On Jun 21, 2022
omenka:
God bless Omoluabi.

God bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR (2023).

God bless the West, the Middle Belt, North East, North West, and South South.

Amen. cool

God bless you and your familygrin

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Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Uchek(m): 4:44pm On Aug 21, 2022
You did not include God bless the South East?
Why?



omenka:
God bless Omoluabi.

God bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR (2023).

God bless the West, the Middle Belt, North East, North West, and South South.

Amen. cool
Re: Nigerian Announced The Winner Of The $65k Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2022. by Nobody: 4:57pm On Aug 21, 2022
omenka:
God bless Omoluabi.

God bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR (2023).

God bless the West, the Middle Belt, North East, North West, and South South.

Amen. cool

Lol. This Omenka na unrepentantly controversial chap sha. Why did you leave out the SE? You want to upset our IPOBian brethren on a day of godliness? Lol.

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