Dr. Wale Okediran

Dr. Wale Okediran a Medical Doctor and Former Member of the Nigerian Parliament is a former National President of the Association of Nigerian Authors and the current Secretary General, Pan African Writers Association. He is a Published author of fourteen novels many of which have won local and international Literary prizes such as, American Poetry Association Book Prize (Call To Worship, 1990), Commonwealth Literature Prize Shortlist (The Boys At The Border, 1991), ANA Prize for Children’s Literature (The Rescue of Uncle Babs, 1998), NLNG Nigerian Literature Prize Shortlist (Dreams Die At Twilight, 2004) Spectrum Books Prize For One of the Best 25 Books in Nigeria in the last 25 years (Dreams Die At Twilight, 2004), ANA Best Fiction Prize (Strange Encounters, 2005), and Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa shortlist (The Weaving Looms, 2008) In addition, he has authored six Biographies of some renowned African professionals and political leaders. The Ebedi International Writers Residency in Iseyin, Nigeria, a free facility for the use of writers which he founded in 2010 has hosted over 200 African Writers from 12 different countries since it was established. His book, Tenants of the House which is a factional account of his stay as a Member of the Nigerian Parliament was the co-winner of the 2010 Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature and has now been adapted as a motion picture currently streaming on NETFLIX Global Platform.