Awon ami eye ti o ti gba ni Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa ti odun 2006 ati Noma Award for Publishing in Africati odun 2009.Itan igbesi aye re Won bi Atta ni Ipinle Eko, Orile-ede Naijiria, ni osu kinni odun 1964, sinu idile omo marun-un.. 
jẹ ilu ni Naijiria.itọkasiàwọn ilu ati abule ni Naijiria.. 