Obari Gomba

Obari Gomba is a Nigerian writer and a playwright. In 2023, he won the Nigeria Prize for Literature for his work Grit. Quotes A good play can be demanding on many levels. You work on it, and you convince yourself that you have written it to the best of your ability, and you hope that someone else will perceive that you have indeed written a good play. It happens often, perhaps as often as you can deceive yourself that you have produced a good play and as often as the reader can fail to understand the aesthetic merits of a good play. Defeat is that default system, structured as a kind of political panopticon, regardless of the different temperaments of those brothers. The situation is quite familiar to us. Every human being is born into active or ongoing politics. You know that literature does not exist in a vacuum. There is a two-way exchange between literature and society that allows the former to bear the burden of our collective memory. Women are victims of many of the atrocities in the world. Many perpetrators of violence see women as easy targets. I would rather be a famous and rich writer than an unknown and poor one. Every writer is at liberty to make that choice or any other choice He describes the relationship between fame and money in his writing Every literary tradition requires a support system. Good publishing and promotion are as important as awards and prizes. Even though writers do not write only for prizes, they need prizes to reward creativity, energize the creative space, and call attention to books. We need more awards and prizes. I am grateful to the Nigeria LNG Limited for raising the bar; God bless them. It is the writer’s job to see politics clearly and to interrogate society. If writing does not challenge abusive politics, then writing is complicit He talks about the relationship between literature and politics A man like me does not spend money before it is made or earned. Even hatched chicks must grow before they are eaten or sold. External links Category: Living people Category:Nigerian writers