Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

(1934) essayist Nigeria

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Wole Soyinka (born 1934) was a Nigeria essayist, 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.

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".

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

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Awards:

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|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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