Omoseye Bolaji

Who is Omoseye Bolaji?

Omoseye Bolaji is an award-winning black African writer who over the years has contributed phenomenally to the growth of Black Literature at grassroots level in South Africa, especially in the Free State. Bolaji is a novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, biographer, editor and journalist.

Omoseye Bolaji's published fiction is renowned for its unexpected, often shattering endings. His published works of fiction are The Termagant, They Never Say When, Impossible Love, Tebogo Investigates, The Ghostly Adversary, The Guillotine Tebogo's spot of bother, Tebogo Fails, People of the Townships, Ask Tebogo, Tebogo and the Haka, Tebogo and the epithalamion, Tebogo and the pantophagist, and Tebogo and the Bacchae. He has also published a play, The Subtle Transgressor His poems are collected under Snippets and Reverie. His other general works include Eagles at USA 94, The story of Collins Mokhotho, Fillets of Plaice,Thoughts on Free State Writing, Molebogeng Alitta Mokhuoa, My Opinion, Miscellaneous Writings, and It Couldn't Matter Less. In 2007 Bolaji published Poems from Mauritius and My Life and Literature.