Jude Dibia

Jude Dibia (born 5 January 1975 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist.^[1] In 2007, he won the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Prose for his novel Unbridled.

Dibia studied at the University of Ibadan, and earned a B.A. in Modern European Languages (German).^[1]

Jude's novels have been described as daring and controversial by readers and critics in and out of Africa. Walking with Shadows is said to be the first Nigerian novel that has a gay man as its central character and that treats his experienpositivegreat insight, inviting a positive response to his situation. Unbridled, too, stirred some controversy on its publication; it is a story that tackles the emancipation of its female protagonist, who had suffered incest and various abuse from men.^[2]

Dibia's short stories have appeared on various online literary sites, including AfricanWriter.com and Halftribe.com. One of his short stories is included in the anthology One World: A global anthology of short stories, alongside stories by such critically acclaimed writers as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri.^[3]

• Sesan, Azeez Akinwumi. Sexuality, Morality and Identity Construction in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows. Ibadan Journal of English Studies 7 (2018): 453–468.
• Sotunsa, Ebunoluwa Mobolanle & Festus Alabi. The Portrayal of Homosexuality in Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows. Ibadan Journal of English Studies 7 (2018):437-452.

• Winner for the 2007 Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Prose for Unbridled^[4]
• Finalist for the 2007 Nigeria Prize for Literature award for Unbridled

• Walking with Shadows (BlackSands Books, 2005)
• Unbridled (2007)
• Blackbird (2011).^[5]

Among Strangers

Wikiquote has quotations related to Jude Dibia.

• "I want to tell stories people are not bold enough", Sun newspaper, November 1, 2005.
• Olusola Agbaje, "12 Things You Didn’t Know About Jude Dibia", Aphroden.

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