Bola Agbaje graduated from the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007. Her first play, Gone Too Far!, won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated Theatre. It was revived in 2008 and had a run in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, as well as at the Hackney Empire and Albany Theatre. Bola was also nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2008. She is currently writing a feature-film adaptation of Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s novel An African in Greenland.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
