Tade Ipadeola emerges winner of 2013 NLNG prize

Celebrating one of our own........

For his book, the Sahara Testament, poet and author, Tade Ipadeola has emerged winner of the 2013 Nigerian prize for literature organised by the
Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, as announced yesterday.

Making the announcement at the
Oceanview Restaurant, General Manager, External Relations of NLNG, Kudo Eresia-Eke, said that in arriving as winner, Ipadeola used “Sahara as a metonym for the problems of Africa and indeed the whole of humanity.”

Tade’s book, The Sahara Testaments, beat the other 200 entries for this year’s edition of the prize that is worth $100, 000.

The winner was announced two days ago at The World Press Conference in Lagos. According to the judges, the poet demonstrates “an outstanding level of intellectual exposure and knowledge, language use awareness of literature.”

Ipadeola’s work defeated Promise
Ogochukwu’s Wild Letters and Through the Window of a Sandcastle by Amu Nnamdi.

Responding to the announcement,
Ipadeola said: “I am elated; it is not everyday that one wins such a
previous prize as the NLNG”

Congratulation to the author, and more grease to his elbows..