Rotimi Babatunde

Rotimi Babatunde’s fiction and poems have been published in Africa, Europe and America in journals which include Die Aussenseite des Elementes and Fiction on the Web and in anthologies including Little Drops, Daybreak on the Land and A Volcano of Voices. He is a winner of the Meridian Tragic Love Story Competition organised by the BBC World Service and was awarded the Cyprian Ekwensi Prize for Short Stories by the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF). His plays have been staged and presented by institutions which include Halcyon Theatre, Chicago; Riksteatern (the Swedish National Touring Theatre), Stockholm; the Royal Court Theatre, the Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) and Churchill Theatre Bromley, all in London; and broadcast on the BBC World Service. He has been awarded literary fellowships by the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation in New York, by Fondazione Pistoletto’s Unidee Program and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre in Italy, and by Ledig House and the MacDowell Colony in the United States. Rotimi Babatunde lives in Ibadan, Nigeria