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Gboyega Odubanjo (30 January 1996 – August 2023) was a British-Nigerian poet.
Gboyega Odubanjo | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 30, 1996 London, England |
| Died | c.August 31, 2023 (aged 27) Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | University of East Anglia, |
Gboyega Odubanjo was born on 30 January 1996,[1][2] in London, England, where he also grew up.[3]
Odubanjo attended the University of East Anglia between 2014 and 2019.[4] He earned his Bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 2017, and his Master's degree in poetry in 2018.[5] He was studying for a PhD in creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire at the time of his death.[3][4]
Odubanjo's first pamphlet, While I Yet Live, was published in 2019 by Bad Betty Press.[5] This was followed by Aunty Uncle Poems, which won the Poetry Business Competition. After his death, Faber announced that Adam, a first full-length collection, would be published in 2024. The book revisits the unsolved murder of an unidentified black boy whose body was discovered in the Thames in 2001.[2]
Odubanjo was a board member and former guest editor of Magma Poetry.[5] He was the editor of bath magg, an online magazine of poetry, and an editor at independent publisher Bad Betty Press.[3][4]
In August 2023 Odubanjo died in an accidental drowning at the Shambala Festival in Northamptonshire where he was due to perform.[6][7] He had been reporting as missing for several days before his body was found.[8][9]
- 2020: OutSpoken Prize for Poetry (shortlisted), for While I Yet Live[5]
- 2020: Poetry Business New Poet's prize for Aunty Uncle Poems[4][5]
- 2021: Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors[4]
- 2021: Michael Marks pamphlet award for Aunty Uncle Poems[4][5][10]
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