Gabriel Gbadamosi (born 1961)[1] is a British poet, playwright and novelist of Irish-Nigerian descent.
[5] He has also lectured in dramaturgy at the University of Istanbul,[6] has been Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the Faculty of English of Cambridge University,[7] director of the Society of Authors, and a presenter of BBC Radio 3's arts programme Night Waves.
[5] Gbadamosi's poems have featured in such anthologies as The New Poetry 1968–1988 (1988) and The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English (1990), and his plays include No Blacks, No Irish, Eshu's Faust (Jesus College, Cambridge), Shango (DNA, Amsterdam), Hotel Orpheu (Schaubühne, Berlin), Friday's Daughter (for television), as well as the BBC Radio 3 drama about the Notting Hill Carnival entitled The Long, Hot Summer of '76, which won the first Richard Imison Memorial Award.
[1][8][9] His most recent play Stop and Search was staged at the Arcola Theatre in 2019, directed by Mehmet Ergen.
[11] In August 2013, Gbadamosi appeared on BBC Radio 4's Great Lives, nominating Nigerian musician Fela Kuti.