SENTINEL
POETRY
ONLINE MAGAZINE MONTHLY ISSN 1479-425X
Editor: Amatoritsero Ede
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AMATORITSERO EDE is an ex-Hindu Monk with the
Hare Krishna Movement, born in Nigeria. He worked as a Book Editor with a
major Nigerian publisher, Spectrum Books, before starting his studies in
1991. He has been published in the past in Nigerian literary newspapers and
recently in “Olongo” (Ibadan Journal of the Arts, Nigeria); in
international journals like “Versal” in Amsterdam and
“DrumVocies Revue” in the USA. He also appears in the following
anthologies: Voices from the Fringe: An ANA
Anthology of New Nigerian Poetry Harry Garuba ed. (Lagos: Malthouse
Press, 1988); The Fate of Vultures: BBC
Prize-Winning Poetry.
Peter Porter et al. eds. (Oxford: Heinemann International, 1989); Und auf den
Strassen eine Pest
Uche Nduka ed. (Bad Honnef, Germany: Horlemann Verlag, 1996); May Ayim
Award Anthology
Peggy Piesche et al eds. (Berlin, Germany: Orlanda Verlag, 2004); Camouflage: The Best of
Contemporary Nigerian Writing Nduka Otiono & Diego Okonyedo eds.
(Yenogoa, Nigeria: Treasure Books, 2006) and TOK 1: Writing the
New Toronto
Helen Walsh ed. (Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2006). In 1993 he won the runner-up prize of the
Association of Nigerian Authors' (ANA) Poetry Competition with the manuscript
of “A Writer's Pains”; in 1998 the ANA All Africa Christopher
Okigbo Prize for Literature (endowed by Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel
Laureate) with his first collection of poems, Collected Poems: A
writer’s Pains
& Caribbean Blues (Bremen, Germany: Yeti Press, 1998) and
second prize in the first May Ayim Award: International Black German Literary
Prize, in 2004. He is writer-in-residence at Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada under the auspices of PENCanada’s
Writers-in-Exile Network. He is currently working on a novel, two collections
of poems, and a play He has had readings all over Europe - for example
at the Frankfurt Book Fair, at the German PEN Centre in Berlin and at the
Tropical Museum in Amsterdam. In 2002 Amatoritsero Ede received a combined
Honours Masters degree in German Language & Linguistics and Literature in
English & Cultural Studies from the University of Hannover in Germany,
for which he had a scholarship grant from the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. He
is a trained book editor and has a certificate in Print Production from the
Graphic Media Development Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands. He has been the editor of Sentinel
Poetry (Online) since February 2005. |