Biyi Bandele

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Biography

Biyi Bandele was born in Nigeria in 1967, and now lives in London. He has written several plays, and worked with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as writing radio drama and screenplays for television. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge from 2000-2002, and Royal Literary Fund Resident Playwright at Bush Theatre from 2002-2003.

His plays are: Rain; Marching for Fausa (1993); Resurrections in the Season of the Longest Drought (1994); Two Horsemen (1994), selected as Best New Play at the 1994 London New Plays Festival; Death Catches the Hunter and Me and the Boys (published in one volume, 1995). Brixton Stories, his stage adaptation of his own novel The Street (1999), premiered in 2001, and was published in one volume with his play, Happy Birthday Mister Deka, which premiered in 1999.

Biyi Bandele has also written five novels: The Man Who Came In From the Back of Beyond (1991); The Sympathetic Undertaker: and Other Dreams (1991); The Street (1999); Burma Boy (2007): and The King's Rifle (2009).

In 1997 he adapted Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart for the stage, and in 1999 wrote a new adaptation of Aphra Benn’s Oroonoko, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Drama, Fiction, Screenplay

Bibliography

The Man Who Came In From the Back of Beyond   Bellew, 1991

The Sympathetic Undertaker: and Other Dreams   Bellew, 1991

Marching for Fausa   Amber Lane Press, 1993

Resurrections in the Season of the Longest Drought   Amber Lane Press, 1994

Two Horsemen   Amber Lane Press, 1994

Death Catches the Hunter/Me and the Boys   Amber Lane Press, 1995

Aphra Benn's Oroonoko   (adaptation)   Amber Lane Press, 1999

The Street   Picador, 1999

Brixton Stories/Happy Birthday, Mister Deka   Methuen, 2001

Burma Boy   Cape, 2007

The King's Rifle   Amistad Press, 2009

Read about books by Biyi Bandele at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

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Prizes and awards

1989   International Student Playscript Competition   Rain

1994   London New Play Festival   Two Horsemen

1995   Wingate Scholarship Award

1998   Peggy Ramsay Award

2000   EMMA (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award) for Best Play   Oroonoko

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Jonathan Cape Ltd Random House UK Ltd 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London  SW1V 2SA England Tel: +44 (0)20 7840 8539 Fax: +44 (0)20 7932 0077 http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/

Agent The Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd 17 Bedford Square London  WC1B 3JA England Tel: +44 (0)20 7908 5900 Fax: +44 (0)20 7908 5901 E-mail: mail@wylieagency.co.uk http://www.wylieagency.co.uk

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