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The Wole Soyinka Annual Lecture Series was founded in 1994. It is dedicated "to honouring one of Nigeria and Africa's most outstanding and enduring literary icons: Wole Soyinka". [81] It is organised by the National Association of Seadogs. In 2011, the African Heritage Research Library and Cultural Centre built a writers' enclave in his honour.
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize awarded biennially [1] to the best literary work produced by an African. It was established by the Lumina Foundation [2] in 2005 in honour of Africa's first Nobel Laureate in Literature, Wole Soyinka, [1] who presents the prize, which is chosen by an international jury of literary figures. [3]
Soyinka in 2018. The works of the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka encompass autobiography, plays, poetry, and teleplays. He has also had an active directing, acting, and speaking career. He is best known for his plays, especially the early plays that were performed in the Royal Court Theatre, where he worked as a play reader. [1]
Wole Soyinka Nigeria: First Black African person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature [4] 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt: First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature: 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa: First White African woman to win a Nobel Prize 1993 Nelson Mandela: Peace: 1993 F. W. de Klerk: 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
When Soyinka was awarded, he became the first African laureate. [2] He was described as one "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence". Reed Way Dasenbrock writes that the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Soyinka is "likely to prove quite controversial and thoroughly deserved".
"Madmen and Specialists was the first play by Soyinka after he was released from prison" - this is a sudden revelation. You should add context by saying when this was, and why he was in prison. "He is a prolific writer of poetry, who wrote three poetry collections" => "He is a prolific writer of poetry, having written three poetry collections"
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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is an American literary award dedicated to ... Wole Soyinka (1983), Nadine Gordimer (1988), Toni ... Fiction winners [2] Year ...