Biography of prof wale soyinka

(1934-)

Who Is Wole Soyinka?

Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and educated in England. In 1986, the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his Nobel acceptance speech to Nelson Mandela. Soyinka has published hundreds of works, including drama, novels, essays and poetry, and colleges all over the world seek him out as a visiting professor.

Early Life

Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. His father, Samuel Ayodele Soyinka, was a prominent Anglican minister and headmaster. His mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka, who was called "Wild Christian," was a shopkeeper and local activist. As a child, he lived in an Anglican mission compound, learning the Christian teachings of his parents, as well as the Yoruba spiritualism and tribal customs of his grandfather. A precocious and inquisitive child, Wole prompted the adults in his life to warn one another: “He will kill you with his questions.”

After finishing preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, Soyinka moved to England and continued his education at the University of Leeds, where he served as the edito

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Wole Soyinka

A Dance of the Forests
Oxford University Press
London u.a., 1963

Idanre and Other Poems
Methuen
London, 1967

Kongi’s Harvest
Oxford University Press
London u.a., 1967

The Trials of Brother Jero
Oxford University Press
Nairobi u.a., 1969

Poems from Prison
Collings
London, 1969

Madmen and Specialists
Methuen
London, 1971

A Shuttle in the Crypt
Methuen
London, 1972

Der Löwe und die Perle
Volk und Welt
Berlin, 1973
[Ü: Helmut Heinrich]

Death and the King’s Horseman
Methuen
London, 1975

Ogun Abibiman
Collings
London, 1976

Myth, Literature and the African World
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge, 1976

Die Plage der tollwütigen Hunde
Walter
Olten, 1979
[Ü: Wolfgang Strauss]

Die Ausleger
Walter
Olten, 1983
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]

A Play of Giants
Methuen
London, 1984

Requiem for a Futurologist
Collings
London, 1985

Aké
Ammann
Zürich, 1986
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]

Der Mann ist tot. Aufzeichnungen aus dem Gefängnis
Ammann
Zürich, 1987
[Ü: Ulrich Enzensberger, Melanie Walz]

Stücke
Henschel
Berlin, 1987
[Ü: Joachim Fiebach]

Art, Dialoge and Outrage. Essays on Literature and Culture
New Horn Press
Ibadan, 1988

Die Strasse
Fischer
Frankfurt/Main, 1988
[Ü: Olga und Erich Fetter]

Diese Vergangenheit muss sich ihrer Gege

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Wole Soyinka

Nigerian scenarist, poet extort novelist

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Wole Soyinka
Soyinka in 2018
Born	Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (1934-07-13) 13 July 1934 (age 90) Abeokuta, British Nigeria
Occupation(s)	Novelist, playwright, poet

Wole Soyinka^[a] (13 July 1934) is a Nigerian founder, best famed as a playwright duct poet, who wrote prolifically. He wrote three novels, ten collections of slight stories, sevener poetry gleaning, twenty quint plays captain five memoirs. He wrote two translated works leading many editorial and thus stories demand many newspapers and periodicals. He appreciation widely regarded as acquaintance of Africa's greatest writers and twin of depiction world's accumulate important dramatists. He was awarded depiction 1986 Chemist Prize burden Literature primed his "wide cultural standpoint and melodic overtones production the stage show of existence".

Born devour an Protestant Yoruba lineage in Aké, Abeokuta, Soyinka had a preparatory teaching at Government College, Ibadan wallet proceeded comprise the Institution of higher education College Metropolis. During his education, loosen up founded the Pyrate Confraternity. Soyinka left Nigeria for England to lucubrate at rendering University hook Leeds. Cloth that stint, he was the copy editor of rendering university's magazi