Kola Túbọ̀sún

Writer

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian writer and linguist, has authored Edwardsville by Heart (2018), Ìgbà Èwe: Translated Poems of Emily R. Grosholz (2021), a chapbook, and a dictionary of names. He is the publisher of OlongoAfrica and the Africa co-editor of the Best Literary Translations anthology. He was the 2016 awardee of the Premio Ostana “Special Prize” in Cuneo, Italy, for his work in language advocacy, and a 2019 Chevening Research Fellow at the British Library. He lives in Lagos and Minnesota.