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Jumoke Verissimo is a Nigerian poet, novelist, and essayist. She is the author of the poetry collection The Birth of Illusion (2004), the novel Ijele: The Journey of a Night Masquerade (2006), and the essay collection The Bead Collector (2009). She has also written several plays, including The Last of the Masquerades (2005) and The House of Stones (2008). Verissimo was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and attended the University of Lagos, where she earned a degree in English and Literary Studies. She has also studied at the University of Ibadan and the University of Port Harcourt. Verissimo has been a fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley. Verissimo is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry (2004), the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Prose (2006), and the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Drama (2008). As of 2021, Jumoke Verissimo's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Occupation Writer
Age 44 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 26 December 1979
Birthday 26 December
Birthplace Lagos, Lagos Island, Nigeria
Nationality Nigeria

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2010

The People's Daily describes her collection as "a bold stance of pain and other emotions, filtering through the pores of gross indifference and achieving a communal cry of retrospective protest." The Punch also describes her as, "one of those who will change the face of literature in Nigeria", after her first book, which was well-received across the country. Her works have appeared in Migrations (Afro-Italian), Wole Soyinka ed., Voldposten 2010 (Norway), Livre d'or de Struga (Poetes du monde, sous le patronage de l'UNESCO) and many other prints and online magazines. Some of her poems are in translation in Italian, Norwegian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Macedonian.

1979

Jumoke Verissimo (born 26 December 1979 in Lagos) is a Nigerian poet and writer. Her first book, I Am Memory, has won some literary awards in Nigeria. Some of her poems are in translation in Italian, Norwegian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Macedonian.