Tolu Oloruntoba

Last updated April 15, 2025

Tolu Oloruntoba is a Nigerian-Canadian poet and physician,^[1] whose debut poetry collection The Junta of Happenstance won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2021 Governor General's Awards ^[2] and the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize.^[3]

Originally from Ibadan, Nigeria, Oloruntoba currently works in British Columbia as a manager of virtual health projects.^[1] His poetry chapbook Manubrium was shortlisted for the 2020 bpNichol Chapbook Award.^[1]

References

1 2 3 David Ly, "“A poem is never done”: An Interview with Tolu Oloruntoba". Prism International , July 29, 2021.
↑ "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize". Coast Reporter, November 17, 2021.
↑ Adina Bresge, "B.C. writer Tolu Oloruntoba wins $65K Griffin Poetry Prize for debut book". Toronto Star , June 15, 2022.

External links

Official website

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
1980s	F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981) Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982) David Donnell, Settlements (1983) Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984) Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985) Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986) Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987) Erín Moure, Furious (1988) Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
1990s	Margaret Avison, No Time (1990) Don McKay, Night Field (1991) Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992) Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993) Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994) Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995) E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996) Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997) Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998) Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
2000s	Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000) George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001) Roy Miki, Surrender (2002) Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003) Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004) Anne Compton, processional (2005) John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006) Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007) Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008) David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
2010s	Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (2010) Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011) Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012) Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013) Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014) Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015) Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016) Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017) Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018) Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
2020s	Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020) Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021) Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022) Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023) Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel (2024)

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