Kola Tubosun

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian writer and linguist, currently the Africa co-editor of Best Literary Translations anthology, and publisher of OlongoAfrica.com

Fulbright scholar (2009), Miles Morland Writing Fellow (2018), and Chevening Research Fellow at the British Library (2019/2020), his work has been published in African Writer, Aké Review, Brittle Paper, International Literary Quarterly, PEN Transmissions, Enkare Review, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Jalada, Popula, Saraba Magazine, World Literature Today, etc. 

He has translated Chimamanda Adichie, Haruki Murakami, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Wole Soyinka, James Baldwin, Cervantes between English and Yorùbá. His work in language advocacy earned him the Premio Ostana Special Prize in Italy in 2016.

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Translating in a Burning World: A Conversation about the Best Literary Translations series