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| A Letter to Lynda |
| and Other Poems |
| By Funso Aiyejina |
| ISBN 1856571068 |
| SERIES Classic African Writing |
| Paperback 84 pages |
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| Published 12 July 2006 |
| UK Price £7.95 Order from amazon.co.uk |
| US Price $13.95 Order from amazon.com |
Funso Aiyejina is a literary and cultural critic, poet, playwright, and short story writer. He was born in Ososo, Edo State and grew up in Temidayo Camp, a remote village near Ondo, to which his parents had relocated as migrant cocoa farmers. He is a graduate of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Nigeria (BA); Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada (MA); and The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago (PhD). He taught for many years at the Obafemi Awolowo University before relocating to Trinidad and Tobago where he is a Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.'A Letter to Lynda and Other Poems' (1988), his first book of poems, won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize in 1989. It was hailed as 'a memorable epistle' and as a 'major new collection from a major new poet from whom we will hence demand only greatness' (Afam Akeh, Daily Times, Wednesday, August 9, 1989). |
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