Tutuola
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Odafin “Fin” Tutuola on “SVU,” for his work ethic and his “universal appeal,” saying that nobody gets the reaction Ice-T does when filming among the public on city streets.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
What little knowledge he had came from two books by Nigerian writers that he read in preparation for his experience, Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” by Amos Tutuola.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2021
Personally, I think a dinner party with Leonora Carrington, Angela Carter and Amos Tutuola would be amazing.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2021
There were famous Nigerian writers before Achebe, like Amos Tutuola, who based his novels on folk tales, and Cyprian Ekwensi, who wrote memorable children’s stories.
From Newsweek • Mar. 22, 2013
In prose unfettered by grammatical conventions, Tutuola depicted mythic odysseys.
From Time Magazine Archive
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