Sunny AYEWANU

Sunny AYEWANU
2002
  • Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Nigeria
English

Sunny AYEWANU is the author of Flowering Bullets, which was a runner-up for the 1998 Association of Nigeria Author prize for poetry. He has contributed poems to three anthologies—Trembling Leaves (1999), Cramped Rooms & Open Spaces (1999), and 25 New Nigerian Poets (2000)—and is the featured author of Nejma 4: The Writings of Sunny Ayewanu. Mr. Ayewanu is the president of the Association of West African Young Writers, one of Nigeria’s oldest literary associations. He is participating courtesy of the U.S. Department of State.

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  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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