Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka was born in 1934 in Abeokuta, into a Christian Yoruba family, studied at Ibadan then at Leeds and worked at the Royal Court in London before returning home to found theatre companies. Imprisoned during the years of the secession, he later lived through several exiles. A playwright above all, he has written only three novels, nearly sixty years apart for the last two. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him in 1986, the first given to an African; his work is translated into some fifty languages.

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• NovelSeason of AnomyWole Soyinka · 1973Literature