Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (n. 13 iulie 1934, Statul Ogun, Nigeria) este un scriitor nigerian, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură.

Medalia Premiului Nobel

Wole Soyinka
Date personale
Născut	13 iulie 1934 Abeokuta, Nigeria
Părinți	Grace Eniola Soyinka[*][[Grace Eniola Soyinka (Nigerian activist)|​]]
Frați și surori	Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka[*][[Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka (researcher)|​]]
Copii	Olaokun Soyinka[*][[Olaokun Soyinka (medic nigerian)|​]]
Cetățenie	Nigeria
Etnie	Yoruba[*]​
Ocupație	dramaturg, poet
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză Nigerian Pidgin[*][[Nigerian Pidgin (English-based creole languages)|​]]
Studii	University of Leeds University of Ibadan[*][[University of Ibadan (public university in Ibadan, Nigeria)|​]] Universitatea din Londra Abeokuta Grammar School[*][[Abeokuta Grammar School (public school in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria)|​]]
Activitatea literară
Limbi	engleză britanică
Patronaj	Universitatea Harvard University of Lagos[*][[University of Lagos (public research university in Lagos, Nigeria)|​]] Universitatea Cornell Universitatea Yale University of Nevada, Las Vegas[*][[University of Nevada, Las Vegas (public research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States)|​]] Emory University[*][[Emory University (private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States)|​]] Universitatea New York Loyola Marymount University[*][[Loyola Marymount University (Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California, USA)|​]] Universitatea Oxford
Specie literară	dramaturgie, poezie
Note
Premii	Premiul Nobel pentru literatură Nigerian National Order of Merit Award[*][[Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (academic award)|​]] Premiul Ansfield-Wolf[*]​ Benson Medal[*][[Benson Medal (Medal awarded by the British Royal Society of Literature (founded 1916))|​]] honorary doctor of Harvard University[*][[honorary doctor of Harvard University |​]] Weilheimer Literaturpreis[*][[Weilheimer Literaturpreis (literary award)|​]] Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[*][[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (award of the Royal Society of Literature)|​]] Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences[*][[Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences |​]] Ehrendoktor der Universität Bayreuth[*][[Ehrendoktor der Universität Bayreuth |​]] honorary doctorate from Princeton University[*][[honorary doctorate from Princeton University |​]] Order of the Federal Republic[*][[Order of the Federal Republic (Nigerian order of merit)|​]] John Whiting Award[*]​ Europe Theatre Prize[*][[Europe Theatre Prize (european Commission award)|​]] doctorat honoris causa de l'université Paris-VII[*][[doctorat honoris causa de l'université Paris-VII |​]] doctorat honoris causa de l'université Montpellier-III[*][[doctorat honoris causa de l'université Montpellier-III |​]]
Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură, 1986
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Opera

Piese de teatru

• The Swamp Dwellers
• The Lion and the Jewel
• The Trials of Brother Jero
• A Dance of the Forests
• The Strong Breed
• Before the Blackout
• Kongi's Harvest
• The Road
• The Bacchae of Euripides
• Madmen and Specialists
• Camwood on the Leaves
• Jero's Metamorphosis
• Death and the King's Horseman
• Opera Wonyosi
• Requiem for a Futurologist
• A Play of Giants
• A Scourge of Hyacinths (radio play)

• The Beatification of the Area Boy
• King Baabu
• Etiki Revu Wetin

Romane

• The Interpreters
• Season of Anomie

Memorii

• The Man Died : Prison Notes
• Aké: The Years of Childhood
• Isara: A Voyage around Essay
• Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1946-65
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Volume de poezie

• A Big Airplane Crashed Into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison)
• Idanre and other poems
• Mandela's Earth and other poems
• Ogun Abibiman
• Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known
• Abiku
• "After the Deluge"
• "Telephone Conversation"

Eseuri

• Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
• Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture
• Myth, Literature and the African World
• "From Drama and the African World View"
• The Burden of Memory The Muse of Forgiveness

Filme

• Culture in Transition
• Blues For a Prodigal