Gabriel Gbadamosi
Playwright, Poet, Non-fiction writer
About
Gabriel Gbadamosi is a poet, playwright and essayist. His London novel Vauxhall won the 2011 Tibor Jones pageturner prize and best international novel at the 2013 Sharjah Book Fair. He was AHRC creative and performing arts Fellow in European and African performance at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Judith E. Wilson Fellow for creative writing at Cambridge University.
Book collaborations as a poet with visual artists include The Second Life of Shells with Mandy Bonnell and Sun-Shine, Moonshine with Conroy/Sanderson. His plays include Eshu’s Faust (Jesus College, Cambridge), Shango (DNA, Amsterdam), Hotel Orpheu (Schaubühne, Berlin) and for radio The Long, Hot Summer of ’76 (BBC Radio 3) which won the first Richard Imison award.
A sample essay ‘The Blazing Light in August’ can be found at Granta online; a spoken essay ‘An Informal History of the Male Nude’ is available online at BBC Radio 3, where he has also presented the arts and ideas programme Night Waves, as well as Art Beat on the BBC World Service. He lives in London and is the RLF Fellow at the City & Guilds of London Art School.
More from Gabriel Gbadamosi
What Book Are You Reading At The Moment?
Writers discuss the book they are currently reading. Penny Black, Jonny Wright, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Sanjida O’Connell, Dipo Agboluaje, Shelley Silas…
What’s Your Favourite Children’s Book?
Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Sanjida O’Connell, Dipo Agboluaje, Leila Rasheed, Shelley Silas, Penny Black, Gabriel Gbadamosi and Jonny…
What’s Your Desert Island Book?
Writers discuss their desert island book. Dipo Agboluaje, Shelley Silas, Jonny Wright, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Leila Rasheed, Penny Black and Sanjida…
What’s Your Favourite Book In Translation?
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Leila Rasheed, Penny Black, Jonny Wright, Shelley Silas, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Sanjida O’Connell and…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – Writer’s Block
I scribbled notes on pieces of paper. I’d leave them out overnight, and let slugs crawl over them. Whole words,…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
I would take a leaf out of Achebe’s own classic novel Things Fall Apart, in which the final paragraph switches…
The Warrior
Gabriel Gbadamosi’s talisman is a cultural counterpart.
Gabriel Gbadamosi – The Future Of Literature
I’ve heard tell of the psychopathology of answering machines, the ghost-in-the-machine poetry of microprocessors, but I’ve watched the use of…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Shades of meaning crowd round every piece of advice I ever received. I never took anything as truth, only as…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – Writers Who Inspire Me
With its title by an Irishman and its split focus between a pre-colonial West African people and culture, and a…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – How Writing Changes The Writer
Writing will demoralise you unless you give in to its moral shaping of experience, but nothing will stop you, as…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – Letter To My Younger Self
You had to remain anonymous and invisible as a condition of being able to get on with your life. As…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – Life-changing Literature
On the opening night we had an audience of a thousand teenage girls screaming their heads off in derision at…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – Why I Write
Released on November 17, 2014
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Playwright, Poet, Non-fiction writer
Posts
- City & Guilds of London School of Art, 2012–2015