Amatoritsero Ede is a Nigerian-Canadian poet. He had written under the name "Godwin Ede" but he stopped bearing his Christian first name as a way to protest the xenophobia and racism he noted in Germany, a 'Christian' country, and to an extent, to protest Western colonialism in general. Ede has lived in Canada since 2002, sponsored as a writer-in-exile by PEN Canada. He was a Hindu Monk with the Hare Krishna Movement, and has worked as a Book Editor with a major Nigerian trade publisher, Spectrum Books. Ede is the publisher and managing editor of Maple Tree Literary Supplement. Between 2005 and 2007 he edited an international online poetry journal, Sentinel Poetry Online. He was the 2005-2006 Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, under the auspices of PEN Canada's Writer-in-Exile network. He was also a SSHRC Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in English literature at Carleton University, from which he received in his PhD in 2013. His doctoral thesis was titled "The Global Literary Canon and Minor African Literatures," a cultural materialist analysis of the subordination of contemporary African literature to the metropolitan canon. He has a BA and MA in Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and German Linguistics from the University of Hannover, Germany.
Prizes
1993 Runner-up prize of the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Competition with the manuscript of "A Writer's Pains." 1998 Won the All-Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature with his first collection of poems 1998 Won the ANA All Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature with his first collection of poems 2004 Won second prize in the first May Ayim Award: International Black GermanLiterary Prize. 2013 Nigerian Literature Prize Longlist
Publications
Research Articles
2015 "." Research in African Literatures. Vol. 46.3. : 112-129. 2016 "." Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special Issue on Afropolitanism. 28.1: 88-100.
2014 "Pro-rogue."Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria. Tope Omoniyi ed. Dakar, Senegal: Amalion, 2014: 83. 2014 "Winter Morning" in On Broken Wings: An anthology of Best Contemporary Nigerian Poetry. Unoma Azuah ed. USA: DeLite Press, 2014: 88. 2014 "Mother and Child" in '. Obari Gomba ed. Lagos: Hornbill, 2014: 162-164. 2010 "Pro-rogue." Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament. Toronto: Mansfield, 2010:45 2007 "Exile." '. Dike Okoro ed. London: Malthouse, 2007:61. 2006 "Globetrotter." ' Helen Walsh ed. : 102. 2006 "Not in Love." . : 122-126. 2004 "." May Ayim Award AnthologyPeggy Piescheet al. eds. : 69. 1996 "Beside the Lagoon & "Rhythm." Und auf den Strassen eine Pest Uche Nduka ed. : 39-40. 1988 "Song" in '. Harry Garuba ed. :2. 1989 "A writer's Pains." The Fate of Vultures: BBC Prize-Winning Poetry. Peter Porter et al. eds. :31.
2014 "The Peaceful "Trouble!" in . Toyin Falola ed. North Carolina: Carolina Academic P., 2014: 137
Literary Nonfiction in Journals
2015 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 20. 2015 "" Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 19. 2014 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement issue 18. 2014 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 17. 2013 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 16. 2013 "" Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 15. 2013 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 14. 2012 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 13. 2012 " '" in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 12. 2011 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 10. 2011 "." Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 9. 2011 "?" Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 8. 2010 "" in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, issue 7. 2010 "" in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, issue 5.
