Wole Soyinka
Nigerian playwright and novelist
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. Wikipedia
Born: July 13, 1934 (age 89 years), Abeokuta, Nigeria
Children: Olaokun Soyinka and Iyetade Apampa
Spouse: Folake Doherty-Soyinka (m. 1989)
Education: University of Leeds (1954–1957), University of Ibadan (1952–1954), Government College Ibadan (1946–1952), and more
Parents: Samuel Ayodele Soyinka and Grace Eniola Soyinka
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL known as Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.
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Aug 16, 2023 ˇ Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author, teacher and political activist. In 1986, he became the first African to receive the Nobel ...
Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1934, he is an author, playwright, poet, and political activist whose prolific body of work includes The Interpreters, his debut ...
Nov 2, 2021 ˇ Soyinka has received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has written more than two dozen plays, a vast amount of poetry, several memoirs, essays, ...
Sep 25, 2021 ˇ It is a high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel that follows a religious leader, a politician, a media baron and a group of university friends as ...
Wole Soyinka is a towering figure in world literature and a multifaceted artist-dramatist, poet, essayist, musician, philosopher, academic, teacher, human ...
Awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence."More ...
Oct 19, 2023 ˇ Wole Soyinka is writer-warrior: at 89, he still has his abundant hair, lanky frame and lavish beard, which give him the look of a charming ...