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Amos Olatubosun Tutuola
Born
Amos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami
(1920-06-20)20 June 1920
Abeokuta, Nigeria
Died
8 June 1997(1997-06-08) (aged 76)
Ibadan, Nigeria
Nationality
Nigerian
Known for
Author
Notable work
The Palm-Wine Drinkard My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Spouse
Victoria Alake
Children
8
Amos Tutuola (Yoruba: Ámósì Tutùọlá; 20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.
AmosTutuola (Yoruba: Ámósì Tutùọlá; 20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales. Amos Olatubosun...
Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a fictional character on the TV drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Ice-T. He is a sergeant with the New York Police...
(novel), 1954 novel by AmosTutuola My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album), 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, titled after Tutuola's novel This disambiguation...
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(founded c. 1948). They produced an early stage musical version of AmosTutuola's The Palm Wine Drinkard, which was performed at the First Pan-African...
recurrent motifs in the Chinua Achebe novel Things Fall Apart, and in the AmosTutuola novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard. It is also mentioned in the 2006 movie...
visibility." She has cited as a major influence the Nigerian novelist AmosTutuola, who is known for incorporating elements of Yoruba folklore into his...
(1973), Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021) AmosTutuola (Nigeria): The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952), My Life in the Bush of Ghosts...
since very little African fiction had been written in English, although AmosTutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard and Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City were notable...
Another significant event in the Conference, is the tacit omission of AmosTutuola." Writing of the conference 50 years later, James Currey in Leeds African...
laureate, (1986) Ibrahim Sheme (born 1968), novelist, poet, publisher AmosTutuola (1920–1997), novelist Kola Tubosun (born 1981), poet, essayist and linguist...
Carl Sandburg Dr. Seuss Jean Shepherd Shel Silverstein Vivian Stanshall AmosTutuola Alan Watts "Weird Al" Yankovic Cesar Aira (Spanish) Alphonse Allais (French)...
2018). "Tradition and the African Children's Storyteller: The Example of AmosTutuola and Ama Ata Aidoo". Folklore. 129 (1): 58–77. doi:10.1080/0015587X.2017...
seven children. His father was an older half-brother of Nigerian author AmosTutuola. Odegbami was brought up in the northern city of Jos, Plateau State along...
dey" means "How are you". The Palm Wine Drinkard, a popular novel by AmosTutuola, was written in it. Since the 1990s the Nigerian movie industry, sometimes...
Aba Hisanjani Duro Ladipo J.F. Odunjo Afolabi Olabimtan Wole Soyinka AmosTutuola Lawuyi Ogunniran Kola Tubosun As of 2024, the Yoruba Wikipedia [yo] is...
musician (d. 1986) Eliana Navarro, Chilean poet (d. 2006) June 20 – AmosTutuola, Nigerian writer (d. 1997) June 21 – Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater...
version. Obioma cites his seminal influences as The Palm-Wine Drinkard by AmosTutuola, for its breadth of imagination; Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas...
Africa come from Nigeria. Among the first modern Nigerian authors was AmosTutuola. In his magnum opus The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952) the author follows...
Thompson – The Killer Inside Me Agnes Sligh Turnbull – The Gown of Glory AmosTutuola – The Palm-Wine Drunkard Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (Agyeya) – Nadi ke...