The biography of wole soyinka
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist
"Soyinka" redirects here. For the surname, see Soyinka (surname).
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| Born | Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka () 13 July (age&#;90) Abeokuta, British Nigeria |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, playwright, poet |
Wole Soyinka[a] (13 July ) is a Nigerian author, best known as a playwright and poet, who wrote prolifically. He wrote three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collection, twenty five plays and five memoirs. He wrote two translated works and many articles and short stories for many newspapers and periodicals. He is widely regarded as one of Africa's greatest writers and one of the world's most important dramatists. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence".
Born into an Anglican Yoruba family in Aké, Abeokuta, Soyinka had a preparatory education at&#;Governm
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The honorable Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka in a town called Ijebu Isara, close to
His Father was a headmaster of the afluent in Ake Abeokuta where they lived and a canon in the Anglican Church. His mother who was a devout christian also owned a shop in the nearby market and was admired as a female political activist in her local community. Certainly this gives us a foreshadow into the career path and writings that Soyinka would undertake as an adult.
Luckily for Soyinka, his parents balanced the colonial English-speaking environment that was present at the time in Ake where he grew up with regular visits to his father's ancestral home in Isara his birth place. Soyinka even proceeded and wrote a book about his childhood life in Ake called Aké: The Years of Childhood () as well as in Isara.
Soyinka attended the of from before earning a BA in English from the . From to , he served as a script-reader, actor an
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Wole Soyinka
A Dance of the Forests
Oxford University Press
London u.a.,
Idanre and Other Poems
Methuen
London,
Kongi’s Harvest
Oxford University Press
London u.a.,
The Trials of Brother Jero
Oxford University Press
Nairobi u.a.,
Poems from Prison
Collings
London,
Madmen and Specialists
Methuen
London,
A Shuttle in the Crypt
Methuen
London,
Der Löwe und die Perle
Volk und Welt
Berlin,
[Ü: Helmut Heinrich]
Death and the King’s Horseman
Methuen
London,
Ogun Abibiman
Collings
London,
Myth, Literature and the African World
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge,
Die Plage der tollwütigen Hunde
Walter
Olten,
[Ü: Wolfgang Strauss]
Die Ausleger
Walter
Olten,
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
A Play of Giants
Methuen
London,
Requiem for a Futurologist
Collings
London,
Aké
Ammann
Zürich,
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
Der Mann ist tot. Aufzeichnungen aus dem Gefängnis
Ammann
Zürich,
[Ü: Ulrich Enzensberger, Melanie Walz]
Stücke
Henschel
Berlin,
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