Gabriel Gbadamosi
Gabriel Gbadamosi is a British poet, playwright and novelist of Irish-Nigerian descent.Biography
Gbadamosi was born in London, where he grew up in Vauxhall. He studied English at Cambridge University, earning a BA degree.
He held an AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship at Goldsmiths, University of London 2006–2009, based in the Department of Theatre and Performance and researching with the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing. He has also lectured in dramaturgy at the University of Istanbul, has been Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the Faculty of English of Cambridge University, director of the Society of Authors, and a presenter of BBC Radio 3's arts programme Night Waves.
His poems have featured in such anthologies as The New Poetry 1968–1988 and The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English, and his plays include No Blacks, No Irish, Eshu's Faust, Shango, Hotel Orpheu, Friday's Daughter, as well as the BBC Radio 3 drama about the Notting Hill Carnival entitled The Long, Hot Summer of '76, which won the first Richard Imison Memorial Award. His recent play Stop and Search was staged at the Arcola Theatre in 2019, directed by Mehmet Ergen.
His first published novel, Vauxhall, described by The Spectator's reviewer as "a book of rare poetic insight and humour that absorbs from start to finish", won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair.
In August 2013 he appeared on BBC Radio 4's Great Lives, nominating Nigerian musician Fela Kuti.
