Quick Facts About Wole Soyinka
- Born
- July 13, 1934
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Profession
- Playwright
- Notable works
- The man died
- Known for
- The Interpreters, The Lion and the Jewel, Season of Anomy, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, Harmattan Haze on an African Spring
- Spouse
- Folake Doherty Soyinka
About Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence".
Biography source:
Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Literature
Weilheim Literature Prize
Order of the Federal Republic
Europe Theatre Prize
Benson Medal
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
John Whiting Award
Nigerian National Order of Merit Award
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honorary doctor of Harvard University
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
honorary doctorate from Princeton University
honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier-III
Golden Magnolia
Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, Civil Division
honorary doctorate of the University of Cape Town
Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences
Doctor honoris causa at University of Bayreuth
honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII
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