Tolulope Popoola Explained

Tolulope Popoola
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Awards:Nigeria Writers' Award

Tolulope Popoola is a Nigerian author who specializes in romance novels. Her writings and excerpts from her stories have been featured in several publications and magazines.

Career

Popoola began writing in 2008, after resigning from her job with an accounting firm. She wrote her first book in 2009, but decided not to publish after discovering it was coincidentally overtly similar to In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika.[1] In 2012, she published her first romance novel, Nothing Comes Close. The book was listed as one of the best books of 2012 by the Africa Writers Club.

Popoola is also the author of the novels Fertile Imagination and Looking for Something. She is the founder and editor of Accomplish Press, a publishing company she established mainly to accommodate "ethnic fiction" novels.[2] In 2015, Popoola wrote a short fictional story, The Alibi, that was featured on Pulse. The story was on an unusual relationship between a maid and a housewife.[3]

In 2017, Popoola was named one of ten Africans in Lancome's list of most powerful and diverse African women.[4]

Recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Why I quit accounting for writing, publishing – Tolulope Popoola . bivan . Nathaniel . March 5, 2016 . Dailytrust . 2018-08-04.
  2. Web site: Tolulope Popoola: I used myself and novel as experiment . Babatunde . Olamide . May 13, 2017 . Daily Sun . 2018-08-04.
  3. Web site: 'The Alibi' by Tolulope Popoola . November 24, 2015 . Pulse . 2018-08-04.
  4. Web site: Lancome’s Recent "My Shade, My Power" Beauty Campaign features 47 Diverse & Powerful Women including 10 Africans! . February 27, 2017 . Bellanaija . 2018-08-04.