Wole Soyinka
Categories:
Author of:
- The Beatification Of Area Boy,
- Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,
- Contemporary African Plays,
- Death and the King's Horseman,
- Death and the King's Horseman,
- From Zia With Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths,
- Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora,
- The Interpreters,
- Jero Plays,
- King Baabu,
- Soyinka Plays: 1,
- Soyinka Plays: 2
Preface:
Biography
Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.
Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012.
A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.