| 词条 | Sade Adeniran |
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BiographySade Adeniran was born in London, England, to Nigerian parents, and at the age of eight was taken back to her father's village in Nigeria,[2] spending her formative years living with her grandmother in Idogun, Ondo State, before returning to the UK.[4][5] Adeniran earned degrees in Media and English from Plymouth University and also studied in the US as an exchange student at the University of Massachusetts.[6] She began her writing career with a radio play written for a final-year university project and entitled Memories of a Distant Past; she submitted "on a whim" to the BBC, and it was produced in BBC Radio 4's "First Bite" Festival.[5] She subsequently wrote other theatre pieces, having her work performed in London at the Lyric Theatre, the Bush Theatre and the Riverside Studios. She was employed as a business change consultant, while also working for five years on her first novel, Imagine This, describing the book's route to publication in the Brunel University newsletter Brunel Link in 2009: "Like most writers who dream of seeing their book in print, I went down the traditional route of sending my manuscript to publishers and agents but the responses were not positive – there didn't seem to be room in the marketplace for a story of a young girl growing up in rural Nigeria. After years of trying to repress my dream of becoming a published author, I finally plucked up the courage to do something. I realised that if I didn't believe in myself, no-one else would."[5] Having left her job, she decided to self-publish and in order to sell the 1100 copies she had printed, she created a website and dedicated herself to a marketing campaign that included appearances on local radio and television.[7] Told through her diaries, Imagine This chronicles 10 years of the life of Lola, who is sent as a nine-year-old from her home in London to live with relatives in Nigeria.[8] In answer to whether the story is autobiographical, Adeniran says her response is always: "'It is and it isn’t’. Some things in the book are based on real incidents. That village was where I grew up, but what happens to the character Lola is not what happened to me."[2] The novel won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (African region), and was shortlisted for the World Book Day "Books to Talk About" award.[5] It was published by Cassava Republic Press in 2011.[9] As a filmmaker, Adeniran is currently developing an adapted version of her novel, which reached the second round of the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab,[10] and won the British Urban Film Festival Award for Best Script Talent.[3] Her second film project is entitled A Mother's Journey,[11] and she is working on others.[12][13] Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond/africanarts/20882.shtml |title=Interview: Sade Adeniran |author=Molara Wood|publisher=BBC |date=April 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526010204/http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond/africanarts/20882.shtml |archivedate=26 May 2011 }} 2. ^1 2 {{cite journal |url=http://www.spikemagazine.com/imaginary-world-an-interview-with-sade-adeniran.php |title=Imaginary World: An Interview with Sade Adeniran |date=4 May 2011 |author=Mary-Claire Wilson |journal=Spike Magazine |accessdate=}} 3. ^1 "Sade Adeniran", Aké Festival 2016 Guests. 4. ^Suzanne Marie Ondrus, "Writing About Writing: African Women's Epistolary Narratives", University of Connecticut dissertation, 8 August 2014, p. 139, citing Yemi Adebisi Senior, "Counting Gains of Nigerian Authors in Democracy", Daily Independent (Lagos), 30 May 2010. 5. ^1 2 3 "Continuing plaudits for debut novelist", Brunel Link Newsletter (Brunel University Alumni Association), 2009, p. 18. 6. ^Suzanne Marie Ondrus, "Writing About Writing: African Women's Epistolary Narratives", University of Connecticut dissertation, 8 August 2014, p. 139. 7. ^Helen Caldwell, "Interview with Sade Adeniran", My Writing Life, 9 March 2009. 8. ^Omiyori Adebare, "Imagine This (by Sade Adeniran)", Africa Book Club, 10 October 2012. 9. ^Imagine This at Cassava Republic Press. 10. ^"Imagine This The Movie" at Sade's World. 11. ^[https://vimeo.com/154982772 "A Mother's Journey (official trailer)"] at Vimeo. 12. ^"News", Sade's World. 13. ^More Cake at London International Black Film Festival, 10 November 2015. External links
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