{"id":4334,"date":"2024-07-12T16:41:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=4334"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:41:25","slug":"romeo-oriogun","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/romeo-oriogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo Oriogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romeo Oriogun is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacrament of Bodies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nomad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gathering of Bastards<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A finalist for the Lambda Award for Gay Poetry, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature, and the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, he is the winner of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America&#8217;s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, and The Nigeria Prize for Literature. He has received fellowships and support from Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Oregon Institute for Creative Research, the IIE-Artist Protection Fund, University of Iowa, and Iowa State University. 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