Tolu Oloruntoba wins The Griffin Prize

[Toyin Falola]

https://www.cbc.ca/books/british-columbia-poet-tolu-oloruntoba-wins-65k-griffin-poetry-prize-for-the-junta-of-happenstance-1.6489322


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[Chielozona Eze]

Congratulations, Tolu.

I enjoy his poems, some of which I have used in my classes. Beautiful.

Chielo

Chielo Eze

President, Igbo Studies Association

Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor

Professor, Africana Studies, Northeastern Illinois University https://neiu.academia.edu/ChielozonaEze

Google Scholar:  Chielozona Eze

My latest book: Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination.

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 6:05 PM Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

https://www.cbc.ca/books/british-columbia-poet-tolu-oloruntoba-wins-65k-griffin-poetry-prize-for-the-junta-of-happenstance-1.6489322


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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Dear Tolu Oloruntoba, 

Mighty Congratulations! What a marvellous achievement! 

First, the startling and significant Each One a Furnace: Poems followed by for what you just got crowned, joining the ranks of Anne Carson!

Next Station: The Nobel Prize For Literature, the prize money,  more than One Million American & Canadian Dollars!