Femi Osofisan Wins Thalia Prize 2016

       According to President of IATC- Nigeria, Professor Emmanuel Dandaura, Femi Osofisan becomes the 1st African and  Black literary scholar to win the highly contested 10-year-old prize previously won by UK-born critic, Eric Bentley (2006), Jean-Pierre Sarrazac (2008), Richard Schechner (2010), Kapila Vatsyayan(2012), and Eugenio Barba (2014).Professor Femi Osofisan is the winner of the coveted Thalia Prize 2016 by the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC).

The Thalia Prize is meant to emphasize the work of those who have helped critics around the globe to understand new ways of seeing and appreciating the performing arts worldwide.
The 2016 Thalia Prize will be presented to the winners at  IATC Congress in Belgrade.