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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]
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.
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".
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
Soyinka has received many accolades including the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, an extended list of honors and awards, and more than 50 honorary degrees. He is a prolific writer of poetry, having written three poetry collections.
Anena received her award at a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, attended by Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel Laureate in literature, after whom the prize is named. The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature is a "pan-African writing prize awarded biennially to the best literary work produced by an African". [30]
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And Soyinka does not, like so many autobiographers, write from the smug perspective of the adult looking back, explaining and commenting and filling in gaps; rather, he captures the world as it must have seemed, in all its enchantment and perplexity, to the boy who was there. [2] Aké: The Years of Childhood was awarded an Anisfield-Wolf Award ...