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past winners of NLNG prize for Literature



2013 Tade Ipadeola, The Sahara Testaments

2012 Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters' Street

2011 Adeleke Adeyemi (Mai Nasara), The Missing Clock

2010 Esiaba Irobi, Cemetery Road

2009 None

2008 Kaine Agary, Yellow Yellow

2007 Mabel Segun, Readers' Theatre: Twelve Plays for Young People

2007 Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, My Cousin Sammy

2006 Ahmed Yerima, Hard Ground

2005 Gabriel Okara, The Dreamer: His Vision

2005 Ezenwa Ohaeto, Chants of a Minstrel

2004 None


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Tade Ipadeola wins 2013 Nigeria Prize for Literature

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The race for the 2013 edition of the prestigious Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), which kicked off February, 2013, came to a positive conclusion Wednesday with The Sahara Testament authored by Tade Ipadeola, emerging winner.
The Ibadan based legal practitioner and poet,Tade Ipadeola who was born in 1970 has published three volumes of poetry-A Time of Signs (2000) and The Rain Fardel (2005). His short stories and essays have also been published in diverse media. In 2009, he won the Delphic Laurel in Poetry with his poem “Songbird” in Jeju, South Korea.

His third volume of poetry which is the Award winning collection of poetry, The Sahara Testaments-a sequence of 1000 quatrains on the nuances of the Sahara, is his latest work. The book was published by Hornbill House of the Arts, Lagos.

The Panel of Judges led by its Chairman, Prof. Romanus Egudu adjudged The Sahara Testament the winning entry for the biggest literary prize in Africa which comes with $100,000 cash prize because “it is a remarkable epic covering the terrain and people of Africa from the very dawn of creation, through the present, to the future.



Reacting to his win, an excited Tade Ipadeola said “this is joyful news, joyful news.

This is the biggest prize in Africa and it is surreal. I am grateful.”

It will be recalled that out of the 201 entries initially received for the prize which were first whittled down to the long list of 11, two female poets, debutante Iquo Diana Eke and veteran Promise Ogochukwu were on the list. There was also a strong showing from writers in the diaspora like Afam Akeh, Obi Nwakanma and Amatoritsero Ede.

Last year’s prize was won by Belgium based Chika Unigwe for her novel On Black Sisters Street making her the first foreign based Nigerian writer to win the prize.

With Ipadeola’s feat, the controversies of 2009 when the Panel of Judges decided that non of the contenders was worthy of the Prize for Poetry, have been laid to rest. As it is customary, Ipadeola will be presented to the public at a date which will be announced by NLNG.

In attendance at the conference were Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board, Dr. Jerry Agada, Chairman of the Panel of Judges, Professor Romanus Egudu who were supported by other members of the advisory board and judges; Professors Elugbe, Ogundipe Molara Leslie and Dr. Andrew Aba as well as Professor Kofi Anyidoho who served as this year’s International consultant to the advisory board. Kaine Agary, winner of the Prize in 2008, was also in attendance.

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nice photos.

its rather amazing though, that metal book racks would be so scarce in nigeria?