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Toyin Adewale-Gabriel

  • Skill Category: Writers
  • Present Address: Ile-Ife, Nigeria
  • Country: Nigeria
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Biography

Toyin Adewale-Gabriel is the author of Naked Testimonies, Die Aromaforscherin and Flackernde Kerzen. She is the editor of 25 New Nigerian Poets and co-editor, Inkwells and Breaking The Silence. She is a Fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude and has been Writer in Residence at the Villa Waldberta, Munich and The Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Visby, Sweden. An MA degree holder from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Adewale-Gabriel has published poems, stories and book reviews in various journals and newspapers. She has served in an executive capacity on the board of the Association of Nigerian Authors whose official annual journal, ANA Review she also edited. Toyin who has read her poems and stories to audiences in Nigeria, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Italy and Luxemburg founded the Women Writers of Nigeria, WRITA, in 1991.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

Her debut collection, Naked Testimonies, won an honourable mention from the Association of Nigerian Authors in 1995. She was also a winner in the Liberty Merchant Bank short story awards in 1997, and received a Distinguished Creative Writer of Excellence Award from the Awo Varsity Literary and English Studies Society.

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