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Rotimi Babatunde is a Nigerian writer and playwright. In April 2014 he was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region.〔(Africa39. )〕 ==Work== His published work includes poems and stories in anthologies, including ''Little Drops'', ''A Volcano of Voices'' and ''Die Aussenseite des Elementes''.〔(Nigeria’s Babatunde wins 2012 Caine Prize )〕〔(Ivana Kottasova, CNN: "Nigerian author wins Caine Prize with 'darkly humorous' prose". )〕 Babatunde's plays have been presented at institutions such as London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Swedish National Touring Theatre and the Halcyon Theatre, Chicago,〔(Alison Flood, "Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine prize for African writing" ), ''The Guardian'', 3 July 2012.〕 as well as being broadcast on the BBC World Service. Babatunde won the Meridian Tragic Love Story Competition (hosted and organized by the BBC World Service). He is also a winner of the AWF Cyprian Ekwensi Prize for Short Stories.〔("Shortlisted writers for 2012 Caine Prize" ), The Caine Prize.〕 Rotimi Babatunde lives in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. His next work is a novel on choice, migration and love.〔("Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine writing prize" ), BBC News, 3 July 2012.〕〔("Babatunde’s 'Bombay Republic' wins 2012 Caine Prize". )〕 His short story "The Collected Tricks of Houdini" was longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World's Richest Story Prize )〕〔Nathaniel Bivan, ("Where prizes take Nigerian literature" ), ''Daily Trust'', 5 September 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rotimi Babatunde」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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