Poet
Funso Aiyejina is a poet, short story writer, playwright, literary and cultural critic, and biographer. He is the author of three collections of poetry: A Letter to Lynda and Other Poems (winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize), The Errors of the Rendering and I, The Supreme and Other Poems. His play, The Character who Walked out on His Author has been performed in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Nigeria. His collection of short stories, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa). He has published extensively on the works of Earl Lovelace, his latest publication being Earl Lovelace (2017) in the Caribbean Biography Series from the University of the West Indies Press. He is Emeritus Professor of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.