| 词条 | Dami Ajayi |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Dami Àjàyí | honorific_suffix = | image =Dami Ajayi.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Damilola Ajayi | birth_date = 1986 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Nigerian | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = Obafemi Awolowo University | occupation = Writer, medical doctor, critic | years_active = 2006 - till date | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | home_town = | television = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = {{URL|www.damiajayi.com}} | religion = }} Dami Àjàyí (born 1986) is a Nigerian poet, medical doctor, and music critic. Along with Emmanuel Iduma, he co-founded Saraba Magazine in 2008. He is the author of two collections of poetry and a chapbook. BiographyDami Àjàyí was born in Nigeria in 1986. While he was an undergraduate of medicine at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, he met Emmanuel Iduma, with whom he would found Saraba Magazine. PoetryIn 2011, he was listed among the "Eight Young Nigerian Poets Whose Poems Delight" on the Sentinel UK Poetry Blog[1] His first collection of poems, Clinical Blues, was shortlisted (in manuscript form) for the Melita Hume Prize in 2012.[2][3] It was published by WriteHouse in 2014, and was longlisted for the biennial Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.[4][5] In 2017, his second collection of poetry, A Woman's Body is a Country, was published by Ouida Books)[6] Of the work, Ajayi says "I wanted my book to show how the noun "affection" becomes a verb, and in my attempt I was drawing from a personal reservoir, hoping that my experiences are singular as well as universal."[7] He has been described as one who "writes about love like liquor that drowns a person into his or her feelings."[8] Prose and criticismAjayi has written short stories that have been published in Nigeria and abroad. He currently provides critical reviews about Nigerian music to a number of online publications. Books
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