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Nationality: Nigerian. Born: Oluwaniyi Osundare, Ikerri, 12 March 1947. Education: University of Ibadan, B.A. (honors) in English 1972; University of Leeds, England, M.A.

in English 1974; York University, Toronto, Canada, Ph.D. in English 1979.

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Career: Since 1982 lecturer, University of Ibadan. Taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of New Orleans, 1990–92. Awards: Commonwealth Poetry prize, and Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry prize, both 1986, both for The Eye of the Earth; Cadbury Poetry prize, 1989; Fulbright scholarship, 1990, 1991; Noma prize, 1991, for Waiting Laughters: A Long Song in Many Voices.Agent: Heinemann Educational Books, Ighodaro Road Jericho, PMB 5205, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Publications

Poetry

Songs of the Marketplace. Ibadan, New Horn Press, 1983.

Village Voices. Ibadan, Evans Brothers, 1984.

A Nib in the Pond. Ife, University of Ife, 1986.

The Eye of the Earth. Ibadan, Heinemann Educa