Tutuola, Amos

Tutuola, Amos,

1920–97, Nigerian novelist, noted for his idiosyncratic use of Yoruba legend and fantasy in tales written in vernacular African English. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drunkard (1952), is probably his best known.

Tutuola, Amos

 

Born June 1920 in Abeokuta. Nigerian writer.

Tutuola, who writes in English, is the author of The Palm-wine Drinkard (1952), My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle (1955; Russian translation, The Adventures of Simbi, 1968), and Feather Woman of the Jungle (1962; Russian translation, 1968). Tutuola’s works are based on oral legends and folklore motifs of the Yoruban people.

WORKS

Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty. London, 1967.

REFERENCES

Ivasheva, V. V. “Roman sovremennoi Nigerii.” In the collection Literatura stran Afriki. Moscow, 1964.
Ivasheva, V. V. Literatura stran Zapadnoi Afriki: Proza. Moscow, 1967.
Collins, H. R. Amos Tutuola. New York [1969].