Olubunmi Familoni

Writer

Olubunmi Familoni is a dramatist, essayist and short fiction writer whose debut collection of stories, Smithereens of Death won the ANA Prize for Short Stories in 2015; his debut play, Every Single Day, was selected by the British Council as part of the Lagos Theatre Festival in 2016; his children’s novel, I’ll Call My Brother for You, won the ANA Prize for Children’s Literature in 2019; his play, When Big Masquerades Dance Naked, was longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature and won the ANA Prize for Drama in 2023; his second children’s novel, The Road Does Not End, won The Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2024. His works have appeared in several journals and he lives and works in Ibadan, Nigeria.