Past winners include five writers who went on to win Nobel Prizes: Nadine Gordimer, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Toni Morrison, Derek Walcott and Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel ...

A new work by a Nobel laureate is generally a cause for celebration, but in Wole Soyinka’s case, it’s especially significant. It’s been nearly 50 years since he published his last novel, “The ...

The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has dedicated the 2024 World Book and Copyright Day to Prof Wole Soyinka, the literature Noble Laurette Soyinka, who is a ...

Wole Soyinka’s literary and activist careers are as marvelous and impressive as his full name, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, which Pantheon executive editor Erroll McDonald told me to look up.

One of Nigeria’s most resilient critics of corruption and dictatorship, Soyinka was arrested in 1965 for raiding a radio station at gunpoint, and replacing a tape of a recorded speech by the ...

In celebration of the prolific writer’s 85th birthday, here is a list of his memorable books: 1. The Trials of Brother Jero. Soyinka’s The Trials of Brother Jero is the first of his three “Jero” plays ...

Soyinka had earlier said that the book is the nastiest he has ever written and it is meant to draw blood. Professor Wole Soyinka was quoted saying his latest book is the “nastiest” that he has written ...

User-Created Clip by walex007 September 7, 2018 2012-12-16T19:01:36-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f7e/20121216193406002_hd.jpgWole Soyinka talked about his ...

Tunde Kelani, who is popular for "Saworoide," is working on a screen adaptation of Wole Soyinka's "Lion and the Jewel." Speaking to Punch, Kelani revealed that he already has Soyinka's approval to ...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. By Wole Soyinka. Pantheon; 464 pages; $28. Bloomsbury Circus; £20 WRITERS, LIKE most people, tend to slow down with age. Not Wole Soyinka, ...

For his attempts to broker peace in 1967, Soyinka was imprisoned again, remaining there for the duration of the Nigerian Civil War before his eventual release in October 1969. In the face of a ...