Wole Soyinka
Appearance
Wole Soyinka | |
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Born | Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka[1] 13 Julie 1934 Abeokuta, Nigerie Pertectorate (nou Ogun State, Nigerie) |
Thrift | Author, poet, playwricht |
Naitionality | Nigerian |
Period | 1957–Present |
Genre | Drama, Novel, poetry |
Subject | Comparative leeteratur |
Notable awairds | Nobel Prize in Leeteratur 1986 Academy o Achievement Gowden Plate Awaird 2009 |
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká, pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩká]; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerie playwricht an poet. He wis awairdit the 1986 Nobel Prize in Leeteratur,[2] the first African tae be honored in that category.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Tyler Wasson; Gert H. Brieger (1 Januar 1987). Nobel Prize Winners: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1. The University of Michigan. p. 993. ISBN 9780824207564. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 Wole Soyinka". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
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