For Esiaba Irobi, the recently deceased playwright, the road to literary glory did not end at the cemetery. In a keenly contested competition amongst the likes of literary icon Ahmed Yerima and Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, the erstwhile Europe-based playwright emerged the winner of the 2010 Nigeria Prize for Literature for his play "Cemetery Road".
Nigeria LNG has pronounced Professor Esiaba Irobi as the winner of 2010 Nigeria Prize for Literature. Watch the nomination video below:
http://www.youtube.com/v/fk6H-8TFtiE?fs=1&hl=en_US
2010 Nigeria Prize for Literature Nominee - Esiaba Irobi
Source: Winners - Nigeria LNG (http://www.nlng.com/NLNGnew/nigeriaprize/Winners.htm)