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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, conocido como Wole Soyinka (Abeokuta, 13 de julio de 1934), es un escritor nigeriano en idioma inglés, [1] el primer africano en conseguir el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1986. Soyinka nació en el seno de una familia yoruba en Abeokuta. [2]
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL (Yoruba: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩnká]), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.
17 de may. de 2024 · Wole Soyinka (born July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria) is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He sometimes wrote of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the evils inherent in the exercise of power were usually evident in his work ...
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Wole Soyinka. (Nombre literario de Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka; Abeokuta, 1934) Dramaturgo, poeta, novelista y crítico nigeriano en lengua inglesa; fue el primer escritor africano negro que recibió el premio Nobel de Literatura (1986). Descendiente de la etnia Yoruba, de rica y poderosa tradición cultural, estudió en la universidades de ...
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Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and educated in England. In 1986, the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his Nobel acceptance speech to Nelson Mandela. Soyinka has published hundreds of works, including drama, novels, essays and poetry, and colleges all over the world ...
Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. His father, Samuel Ayodele Soyinka, was a prominent Anglican minister and headmaster. His mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka, who was called "Wild Christian," was a shopkeeper and local activist. As a child, he lived in an Angli...
In the late 1950s Soyinka wrote his first important play, A Dance of the Forests, which satirized the Nigerian political elite. From 1958 to 1959, Soyinka was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. In 1960, he founded the theater group, Th...
In 1986, upon awarding Soyinka with the Nobel Prize for Literature, the committee said the playwright "in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence." Soyinka sometimes writes of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the evils inherent in the exercise of power ar...
Soyinka has been married three times. He married British writer Barbara Dixon in 1958; Olaide Idowu, a Nigerian librarian, in 1963; and Folake Doherty, his current wife, in 1989. In 2014, Soyinka revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and cured 10 months after treatment.
Autor nigeriano, Wole Soyinka estudió Inglés, Griego e Historia en el University College de la Universidad Gubernamental de Ibadan, marchando después a Inglaterra, donde se licenció en Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Leeds. Ya entonces, Soyinka comenzó a escribir, terminando dos obras de teatro y trabajando en el Teatro de la Corte Real.
Biographical. Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University of Leeds, where, later, in 1973, he took his doctorate.
