Romeo Oriogun has won the 2022 Nigeria
Prize for Literature for his poetry collection, ‘Nomad’.
Oriogun was declared winner at a ceremony tagged Touching the Stars held at Eko Hotels and Suites Lagos on Friday night.
Oriogun beat two other finalists – Su’eddie
Vershima Agema for Memory and the Call of Water and Saddiq Dzukogi for Your
Crib, My Qibla – to the coveted prize, which comes with a cash prize of $100,000.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo presented the award to Agema, who collected it on behalf of Oriogun.
Sakiru Adebayo won the prize for literary criticism.
The biennial prize is sponsored by the
Nigeria Liquefied and Natural Gas (NLNG).
Since 2004, it has rotated among the genres
of fiction, poetry, drama, and children’s literature.
This year was for poetry and it considered
books published in the last four years.