Tope Folarin

Tope Folarin
Born	Oluwabusayo Temitope Folarin 1982 (age 33–34) Ogden, Utah
Language	English
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Nigerian
Alma mater	Morehouse College; University of Oxford
Notable awards	Caine Prize

Tope Folarin, (Oluwabusayo Temitope Folarin) is a Nigerian-American writer. He won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story, Miracle.^[1] In April 2014 he was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region.^[2]

Life

Folarin was born in Ogden, Utah. He grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas.^[3] He graduated from Morehouse College in 2004, with a B.A., and from the University of Oxford in 2006, with an M.Sc. He was a Rhodes Scholar.^[4]

He is on the board of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.^[5] He lives in Washington, D.C.^[6]

Publications

• "Miracle," Transition, No. 109, Persona (2012), pp. 73–83 ^[7]
• "The Summer of Ice Cream," Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2014, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 54+ ^[8]
• "New Mom, from a novel in progress," Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara, Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2014,

References

1. "Tope Folarin wins fourteenth Caine Prize for African Writing", The Caine Prize.
2. Africa39 list of artists, Hay Festival.
3. Krissah Thompson, "Tope Folarin finds his place in the literary world", Washington Post, 24 July 2013.
4. "Black Students Awarded Rhodes Scholarship", Jet, 5 January 2004.
5. Liz Bury, "Caine prize won by Tope Folarin's 'utterly compelling' short story", The Guardian, 9 July 2013.
6. Charlotte Lytton, "Nigerian Tope Folarin wins Caine Prize for tale of deceit in Texas church", CNN, 9 July 2013.
7. http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/transition
8. http://www.vqronline.org/fiction/2014/10/summer-ice-cream

External links

• "Tope Folarin". How Rhodes Scholars Think.

• Webcast at the Library of Congress, 20 March 2014