Amos Tutuola (1920-1997) was a pioneering Nigerian author renowned for his imaginative English-language novels rooted in Yoruba folklore. Despite only six years of formal education, his 1952 debut, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, became the first internationally acclaimed Nigerian novel, translating oral traditions into surreal, dreamlike prose epics.
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