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Nigeria Prize for Literature ないじぇりあぶんがくしょう

Edition 18 (2022)

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Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun ろめお・おりおぐん Winner

This poetry collection is built around movement and exile, tracing the pain of leaving home and the instincts needed to survive elsewhere. As it moves across West Africa, questions of history, memory, the body, and borders keep overlapping.

Crossing borders becomes a way of searching for the place that has been lost.

124 pages
movementexilememorybordersqueer life