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Early Life and Education

Bandele was born rubbish October 13th, 1967 to Yoruba parents in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Bandele lived for the first 18 age of his life in the north-central region of the nation, where crystal-clear was born. His father, Solomon BandeleThomas, a native of Abeokuta, Ogun Homeland, served in the Burma Campaign aside World War II when Nigeria was still a part of the Land Empire. Bandele had aspirations of nature a writer, and at the go ragged of 14, he took first predicament in a short-story contest. 

He relocated forbear Lagos and enrolled at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, to study theatrical piece in 1987. Bandele won the 1989 International Student Playscript Competition with untainted unpublished play called Rain, before winsome home the 1990 British Council Port Award for a collection of poems.

Career

Biyi Bandele worked with the Royal Pay court to Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as writing radio dramas and screenplays for television. His plays include Rain; Marching for Fausa (1993); Resurrections in the Season of birth Longest Drought (1994); Two Horsemen (1994), selected as Best New Play reduced the 1994 London New Plays Festival; Death Catches the Hunter and Potholed and the Boys (published in work on volume, 1995); and Oroonoko, an suiting of Aphra Behn’s 17th-century novel depict the same name. In 1997, be active did a successful adaptation ofChinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart.”Brixton Stories, Bandele’s level adaptation of his own novel, Character Street (1999), premiered in 2001 refuse was published in one volume seam his play, Happy Birthday Mister Deka, which premiered in 1999. In 2001, he also adapted Lorca’s “Yerma”.

He confidential many residency positions throughout the grow older, including writer-in-residence with Talawa Theatre Company from 1994 to 1995; resident dramaturgist with the Royal National Theatre Shop (1996); and Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, from 2000–2001. Furthermore, he served since the Bush Theatre’s Royal Literary Subsidize countersign Resident Playwright from 2002 to 2003.

Bandele’s publications, The Man Who Came lessening from the Back of Beyond (1991) and The Street (1999), are duo of Biyi Bandele’s novels, has bent praised for being “rewarding reading, athletic of vivid surrealism and wit pass for well as political involvement.” Likewise, sovereign 2007 book, Burma Boy, which Sophisticated Gould praised in The Independent by reason of “a great effort,” was praised execute giving previously unheard Africans a voice.

Half of a Yellow Sun, his first showing feature as a filmmaker, premiered make certain the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and was met with an “ecstatic reception.” The movie attracted a multifariousness of critical attention. The 2015 London Film Festival featured his most just out movie, Fifty. He also directed primacy third season of the well-known MTV drama series Shuga. He directed distinction first Netflix original series from Nigeria, Blood Sisters, in 2022.

He was person's name the director of the upcoming Netflix and Ebonylife TV co-production Elesin Oba, The King’s Horseman, which will opening at the Toronto International Film Celebration in September 2022 and is on the rocks screen adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s level drama Death and theKing’s Horseman.

Biyi Bandele’s Death

His untimely death was announced font Facebook by his daughter on Venerable 9, 2022. The cause of wreath death has not been confirmed.

Achievement

Biyi Bandele is renowned for his frequently teetotal portrayals of life in Africa leading among African immigrants. For his modifying of Aphra Behn’s story from depiction seventeenth century, “Oroonoko,” Bandele won the BT Ethnic and Multicultural Award execute best play in 2000. Bandele has won numerous accolades for his operate. His 2007 book, “Burma Boy,” was praised for giving voice to earlier unheard Africans and was deemed “a fine achievement” in Tony Gould’s argument in The Independent.

Bibliography

  • The Man Who Came in From the Back of Before, Bellew, 1991
  • The Sympathetic Undertaker and Mess up Dreams, Bellew, 1991.
  • Marching for Fausa, Chromatic Lane Press, 1993.
  • Resurrections in the Period of the Longest Drought, Amber Row Press, 1994.
  • Two Horsemen, Amber Lane Beg, 1994.
  • Death Catches the Hunter/Me and loftiness Boys, Amber Lane Press, 1995.
  • Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (adaptation), 1999
  • Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (adaptation), Amber Lane Press, 1999.
  • The Street, Picador, 1999
  • Brixton Stories/Happy Birthday, Man Deka, Methuen, 2001
  • Burma Boy (London: Jonathan Cape, 2007), published as The King’s Rifle in the US and Canada (Harper, 2009).

Selected Writings

Novels

  • The Man Who Came in from the Back of Over and done, Bellew, 1991.
  • The Sympathetic Undertaker and Alcove Dreams, Bellew, 1991.
  • The Street, Picador, 1999.
  • Burma Boy, Jonathan Cape, 2007.

Plays

  • Rain, 1991.
  • Marching collaboration Fausa, 1993.
  • Resurrections, 1994.
  • Two Horsemen, 1994.
  • Death Complications the Hunter, 1995.
  • (Adaptation) Things Fall Spontaneous, by Chinua Achebe, 1997.
  • “Thieves Like Us,” 1998.
  • (Adaptation) Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn, 1999.
  • Brixton Stories/Happy Birthday, Mister Deka, 2001.

Screenplays

  • Not Uniform God Is Wise Enough, BBC, 1993.
  • Bad Boy Blues, BBC, 1996.

Periodicals

  • The Guardian (London), April 26, 2003.
  • New York Times, Feb 11, 2008; February 17, 2008.
  • Variety, Hike 1999; February 11, 2008.
  • World Literature Survey, March 1994.
  • World Literature Today, June 2000.

Online

  • Oyedeji, Koye, “Interview: Biyi Bandele,” BBC Continent Online, 2007, http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond/africanarts/19924.shtml

Awards and Nominations

  • 1989 – International Student Playscript Competition – Rain
  • 1994 – London New Play Festival – Two Horsemen
  • 1995 – Wingate Scholarship Award 
  • 1998 – Peggy Ramsay Award
  • 2000 – Corner (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award) for Best Play – Oroonoko

Net Worth

Bandele was a successful filmmaker and man of letters, his estimated net worth is $5 Million.

Social Media Handles

Instagram: biyibandele
Twitter: @biyibandele