SHONEYIN, Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah (Lola Shoneyin)

Biographical record

Gender

Female

Date of Birth

February 26, 1974

State of Origin

Ogun State

Place of Birth

Ibadan

Father's Name

Chief Tinuoye Shoneyin

Mother's Name

Mrs Yetunde Shoneyin (née Okupe)

Name of Spouse

Dr. Olaokun Soyinka

Profession

Poet
Author

Schools Attended with Dates

Cargilfield School, Edinburgh; The Collegiate School, Winterbourne, Bristol; Fettes Junior School, Edinburgh; Abadina College, Ibadan; Ogun State University (now Known as Olabisi Onabanjo University), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State; London Metropolitan University, England, 2005.

Present Appointment

Founder and Director, Book Buzz Foundation; Organizer, Aké Arts and Book Festival; Co-Founder, Infusion.

Have you ever been a member of any political party?

N/A

Creative Work/Major Exhibitions

PUBLICATIONS
NOVELS:
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, published by Serpent’s Tail, London, May 2010.
Longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize, won the 2011 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and won two Association of Nigerian Authors Awards.(Translated into seven languages, published in Italian as Prudenti Come Serpenti).

SHORT STORIES
"Woman in Her Season", Post Express Newspapers, 1996;

POETRY
- So All the Time I was Sitting on an Egg, published by Ovalonion House, Nigeria, 1998
- Song of a River Bird, published by Ovalonion House, Nigeria, 2002;
- For the Love of Flight, 2010;

CHILDREN BOOK’S
- Mayowa and the Masquerade, July 2010

Other Relevant Information

In August 1999, Lola Shoneyin attended the renowned International Writing Program in Iowa, USA, and was also in that year a Distinguished Scholar at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota.