Lola Shoneyin

A Lola Shoneyin (tõnd sẽn dog Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin; b dog-a yʋʋm 1974 tʋʋlg rasem 26 Ibadan, Nizɛɛr) yaa Nigeri seb-gʋlsda la seb-gʋl-gʋlsd sẽn sɩng a noobã sẽn boond t'a Baba Segi pagbã vɩɩm yel-solemdã yʋʋmd 2010 yʋʋm-soabg kiuugã pʋgẽ. A Shoneyin paama yʋʋr sẽn yaa a sẽn yaa nin-gʋlsd sẽn yaa nin -gʋlsd, sẽn yaa sũ-noog soaba, la sẽn yaa nin sẽn gomd ne a sũur fãa (a sẽn yaa ninã sẽn yaa nin na-koɛɛga) n yiis seb-biis a tãabo.  A sẽn gʋlsã pʋgẽ, a goma pagb sẽn yaa yoodã la b sẽn namsd b zagsã pʋsẽ wã yelle.  Yʋʋmd 2014 yʋʋm-vẽkr kiuugã, b yãka-a-la a Hay Festival sẽn be Afrika wã pʋgẽ n wilg sɛb 39 sẽn be Sahara Sahara soolmẽ wã sẽn pa ta yʋʋm 40 sẽn tar minim la minim sẽn tõe n wilg sɛbã sẽn yaa sõma Afrika sɛbã pʋgẽ.  A Lola paama PEN Award Amerikẽ la a Ken Saro-Wiwa Award Nigeri wã pʋgẽ. A ra bee b sẽn na n paam-a la " Orange Prize " sẽn be Etazĩni wã pʋgẽ, a sẽn yiis a no-rɩk ning sẽn boond tɩ Baba Segi wã pagbã yel-solemdã yĩnga. A vɩɩ Lagos, Nizɛɛr tẽnga, la a yaa a sẽn maand yʋʋmdã Aké Art and Book Festivalã.  Yʋʋmd 2017 wã, b yãka a soab tɩ Afrɩka sɛb ning sẽn maand yʋʋmdã soabã. 

## A BIOGRAFI

### A VIIM SINGRE
A Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin rogame Ibadan, Oyo tẽnga tẽnga tẽnga, Nizɛɛr soolmã sẽn be zĩ-wũugdẽ wã, yʋʋmd 1974. A yaa bi-bɩɩg a yoob sʋka, a yaa a yao soaba, la a yaa bi-pugl a ye. A roagdbã, a Tinuoye Shoneyin la a Yetunde Shoneyin (a sẽn dog a Okupe) yaa Remo tẽnga neb sẽn yit Ogun soolmẽ wã.

A Shoneyin tʋʋmda tara a vɩɩmã pãng wʋsgo, sẽn yɩɩd fãa a sẽn kõ-a sɛb a pipi no-rɩtgã pʋgẽ, a polygamie wã wɛɛngẽ. A ma wã yageng a Abraham Olayinka Okupe (1896-1976) ra yaa Iperu Remo naam soaba, la a maana pag a nu. A rɩka naam yʋʋmd 1938 la a ki yʋʋmd 1976.

#### A BANGRE BAOB LA TUUMA
A sẽn tar yʋʋm a yoobã, a kẽnga karẽn-biis roogo sẽn be Etazĩni, n kẽng Cargilfield School, Edimboor. A sẽn lebg n wa Nizɛɛr a ba wã sẽn da be sodaasã yembrã pʋgẽ wã poore, a paama a lekoll a Abadina College wã. A paama a BA (Hons) digre Ogun State University yʋʋmd 1994/95. [Tõnd sẽn na n tool-y neda] 

A Shoneyin sẽn sɩng n gʋlsdã yaa yɩɩl la kibay la sõssã. A sẽn sɩng a tʋʋmã mak-sõamyã n zĩnd Post Express yʋʋmd 1995 wã pʋgẽ.  A wilga kibar sẽn gomd Nigeri pag sẽn bas a sɩdã n kẽed ne pag sẽn yaa Aʋstɛɛr neda. Kibsa kãngã kɩtame tɩ b sõs ne neb nins sẽn yaa kʋɩl-gɛtbã n bãng b sẽn maand to-to wã.

A sẽn da gʋls a pipi seb-gʋlsdã, a sẽn boond t'a So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg wã, yaa Ovalonion House, Nizɛɛr sẽn yi yʋʋmd 1998 wã.  A Shoneyin kẽnga tẽn-zẽng gʋlsrã program ning sẽn zĩnd Iowa, Etazĩni wã, yʋʋmd 1999 tʋʋlg kiuugã, la a yaa St. Thomas (Minnesota) karẽn-biis sẽn paam b waoogr yʋʋmd kãng me.

A yɩɩl a yiib-n-soabã sẽn yaa Song of a Riverbird wã paama b rãmb Nigeri (Ovalonion House) yʋʋmd 2002 wã.  A sẽn da be Angletɛɛrã, a paama a sẽn zãmsdã kareng London Metropolitan University yʋʋmd 2005.

A Shoneyin paama a pipi noora yʋʋm 2000.A yiib-n-soabã, a Harlot, paama neb wʋsg sẽn nong-a, la yaa bi-bɩɩg sẽn dog n bɩɩd kolonial Nizɛɛrã pʋgẽ n na n paam paoong n lebg "Madame" yell la b pa yiis ye [ tɩb sẽn tog n togs tɩ ] Shoneyin kẽngame n na n gʋls a tãab-n-soabã, a Baba Segi pagbã vɩɩm sẽn pa be bãnd pʋgẽ, sẽn yi b sɛbã yʋʋmd 2010 wã. A Rotimi Babatunde ra tol n maana yɩɩl-gʋlsd a yembr n wilg-a Arcola Theatre wã sẽn be Londẽ wã. 

A Shoneyin yɩɩl-tʋʋmd a tãab soaba, a sẽn boond tɩ "Bõnd sẽn nong n loogd yĩng" wã, yʋʋmd 2010 tʋʋlg kiuugã pʋgẽ. Yaa kareng a ye la b yiis-a yʋʋm 2010 t'a lebg b "Mayowa and the Masquerades.

## A MENG VIIM
A kãadem pipi wã kaoosame rasem 40. A kẽe ne logtor Olaokun Soyinka, sẽn yaa noobl zoeta Wole Soyinka biiga, la a zĩnda ne yẽnda yʋʋm 22. A vɩɩ Lagos ne a sɩdã la a kambã (2 kom-bõoneg la bi-pugli). 

## A TUUMA

### A SEBA
* *Mayowa and the Masquerades* - January 2021
* *Nostalgia is an Extreme Sport: An essay from the collection, Of This Our Country* - September 2010
* *Baba Segi, Ses Épouses, Leurs Secrets October* 2016
* *The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives*, London: Serpent's Tail, May 2010.
** Longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize, won the 2011 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and won two Association of Nigerian Authors Awards.
** Translated into seven languages, published in Italian as *Prudenti Come Serpenti*.

#### A KEBAY KOEESE
Woman in Her Season", *Post Express Newspapers*, 1996

* *So All the Time I was Sitting on an Egg* (1998)
* *Song of a River Bird*, Ovalonion House (Nigeria, 2002)
* *For the Love of Flight* (2010)

##### A KIBAR N YA KAMB KIBAY
* *Mayowa and the Masquerade*, July 2010, published in the US in 2020

## A EKOLI tʋʋmdã zãmsg sẽn yaa bãngre
* Abiola, Emmanuel. Negotiating Patriarchal Structures: Polygamy and Female Agency in Lola Shoneyin’s *The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives*. *Ibadan Journal of English Studies* 7 (2018): 497–504.
* Bámgbózé, Gabriel. "Beyond Gender Allegory: A Postcolonial Reading of Lola Shoneyin’s Poetry. *Ibadan Journal of English Studies* 7 (2018): 155-170.
* Jegede, O. B. Subversive (re) writing and body poetics in Lola Shoneyin’s "So all the time I was sitting on an egg". *Ibadan Journal of English Studies* 7 (2018): 207–224.

## SEBTIISE