Soyinka, Wole (Autor Personal)

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His Five plays, 1964.

Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1934)

Yu zhong shi chao, 2003: t.p. (渥雷・索因卡 = Wolei Suoyinka; Wole Soyinka) p. 4 of cover, etc. (b. July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, [Nigeria]; poet; playwright; novelist; critic; Nobel Laureate in literature, 1986)

Wikipedia, Jan. 31, 2014 (Wole Soyinka; Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka; Yoruba: Wọle Ṣoyinka, pron. "Shoyinka"; studied in Nigeria and the UK; escaped from Nigeria during the Abacha regime, lived mainly in the U.S., prof. at Cornell and Emory Universities; returned to Nigeria in 1999 with restoration of civilian rule; has also taught at Oxford, Harvard and Yale; prof. of comparative literature, Obafemi Awolowo Univ. (then called Univ. of Ife) 1975-1999, made prof. emeritus upon his return)

Dictionary of African Biography, accessed September 15, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Soyinka, Wole; Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka; dramatist, poet, fiction writer, essayist; born 13 July 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria; started writings while at the Government College, Ibadan; attended University College, Ibadan; graduated from Leeds University, England (1958); returned home; arrested, trialed, and acquitted (1965); arrested again (1967); self-imposed exile (1971) for about four years; the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; perceived as a member of the Nigerian establishment or ruling circles (1970-1980); friend of the military dictator Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida)

Wikipedia, 03 de noviembre 2023: Ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura, 1986