Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State of Nigeria on July 13, 1934. He attended Government College and University College in Ibadan before receiving a degree in English from the University of Leeds in England in 1958. He has held research and teaching appointments at several universities vis mere including the University of Ibadan, the University of Ife, Cornell University, Emory University, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Loyola Marymount. He is a distinguished playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, social critic, political activist, and literary scholar. His plays include The Swamp Dwellers, The Lion and the Jewel, A Dance of the Forests, The Bacchae of Euripides, A Play for Giants, Death and the King's Horsemen, From Zia with Love, The Beatification of Area Boy, and King Baabu. His collections of poetry include Idanre and Other Poems, A Shuttle in the Crypt, and Mandela's Earth and Other Poems. His novels include The Interpreters, which won the 1968 Jock Campbell Literary Award, and Season of Anomy. His autobiographical works include Ake: The Years of Childhood, Isara: A Voyage Around Essay, The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Memoir of the Nigerian Crisis, and You Must Set Forth at Dawn. His literary essays collections include Myth, Literature and the African World and Art, Dialogue and Outrage. During the civil war in Nigeria, he appealed for cease-fire in an article. Accused of treason, he was held in solitary confinement for 22 months. Two of his works, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka and Poems from Prison, were secretly written on toilet paper and smuggled out of prison. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Wole Soyinka
Contemporary African Plays: Death and the King's Horseman, Woza Albert!, Anowa, The Chattering and the Song, The… (1999) 9 eksemplarer
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (Richard D. Cohen Lectures on African & African… (2020) 8 eksemplarer
Five plays 8 eksemplarer
Reimagining Pan-Africanism : distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere lecture series 2009-2013 (2015) 6 eksemplarer
The Swamp Dwellers 5 eksemplarer
Plays: Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Source of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy v. 2 (Contemporary… (1999) 5 eksemplarer
Before our very eyes : tribute to Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1987) 4 eksemplarer
The Blackman and the Veil: A Century On (W.E.B. Du Bois-Padmore-Nkrumah Pan-African Lectures Series) (1993) 3 eksemplarer
The Strong Breed 3 eksemplarer
Interventions VIII - Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes?: Gani's unfinished business (2005) 2 eksemplarer
INTERVENTIONS VOL I 2 eksemplarer
INTERVENTIONS VOL II 2 eksemplarer
“Telephone Conversation” 1 eksemplar
Cultural relativism & absolute rights 1 eksemplar
Wole Soyinka Ki Kavitayen 1 eksemplar
Outsiders 1 eksemplar
Reflections : Nigerian prose and verse 1 eksemplar
Al di la dell'estetica: uso, abuso e dissonanze nelle tradizioni artistiche africane (2020) 1 eksemplar
Teatro africano 1 eksemplar
Tumači 1 eksemplar
Denne fortid må tale til sin nutid : nobelprisforelæsning, Stockholm 1986 : tilegnet Nelson Mandela (1987) 1 eksemplar
Du 656: Arche Afrika. Ausbruch ins Eigene 1 eksemplar
Le lion et la perle (Afrique en scène) 1 eksemplar
The world as it is : In the eyes of Margaret Atwood, Wole Soyinka, Ai Weiwei (1986) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
La mmorphose de Fr J 1 eksemplar
Man And Nature 1 eksemplar
Before the Blackout 1 eksemplar
Jero's Metamorphosis 1 eksemplar
Etiki Revu Wetin 1 eksemplar
Poems from Prison 1 eksemplar
Tumaci 1 eksemplar
Mannen dog anteckningar från fängelset 1 eksemplar
Transition 52: An International Review New Series Volume 1 Number 2, 1991 Race, The Final Frontier 1 eksemplar
Transition 53: An International Review New Series Volume 1 Number 3, 1991, Fade to Black 1 eksemplar
Transition 54: An International Review New Series Volume 1 Number 4, 1991 Knowledge and Tradition 1 eksemplar
Death and the King's Horseman: A Play 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 497 eksemplarer
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Bidragyder — 448 eksemplarer
Cry Sorrow, Cry Joy! Selections from Contemporary African Writers (1971) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole
- Andre navne
- Soyinka, Wole
- Fødselsdato
- 1934
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Nigeria
- Fødested
- Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
- Bopæl
- Abeokuta, Nigeria
Ibadan, Nigeria
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- University of Leeds (BA|1958)
St. Peter's Primary School, Abeokuta, Nigeria
Abeokuta Grammar School
Government College, Ibadan, Nigeria
University College, Ibadan, Nigeria - Erhverv
- playwright
poet
novelist
critic - Organisationer
- Royal Court Theatre
University of Ifẹ̀
Cornell University - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 1986)
BBC Reith Lecturer (2004)
Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1983)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1986)
Premio Europa per il Teatro (2017)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1983, 2013) (vis alle 10)
Commander, Order of the Federal Republic (1986)
Benson Medal (1990)
Golden Plate Award (2009)
International Humanist Award (2014) - Kort biografi
- fonda il gruppo teatrale "Le maschere 1960"
crea la compagnia "Teatro Orisun"
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Wole Soyinka returns to Biafra i All Books Africa (oktober 2007)
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn is his third volume of memoirs, if his powerful 1972 prison notebook The Man Died is included as well as his 1981 childhood reminiscences, Aké the Years of Childhood.
Soyinka is an engaged writer, who is at the centre of all the stories he tells. Occasionally in a book that stretches to nearly 600 pages that leads to self-indulgence, and he is not one to avoid florid writing. However he is always an insightful commentator on Nigeria and it is undoubtedly true that he has often been near the centre of events…
He returned from studying abroad to travel around Nigeria researching traditional drama, and was amazed at the national borders colonialism had established, “Culture and language differed within each nation as frequently and profoundly as they found identities across the borders of such nation spaces; the arbitrariness and illogicality of their groupings hit any traveller in the face.”…
The expansion of his own political engagement, such as the symbolic stealing of a presidential speech, matches the descent of Nigeria into military dictatorship and the brutal Biafran war. Writing about the crazed logic of bureaucracy under military dictatorship, or the corruption of the anti-corruption soldiers gives a convincing feel of the times. This atmosphere is the book’s real strength…
His narrative can be frustrating and occasionally infuriating as it weaves poetically around his life, structured for the best punch line rather than clarity. But, in the end it tells you something about the history of Nigeria and modern Africa. It is anecdotal rather than historical, but it never claims otherwise.
Socialist Review, Issue 316, July 2007 https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/you-must-set-forth-dawn/… (mere)