Wole Soyinka
Autore di Ake'. Gli anni dell'infanzia
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Wole Soyinka
Contemporary African Plays: Death and the King's Horseman, Woza Albert!, Anowa, The Chattering and the Song, The… (1999) 9 copie
Five plays 8 copie
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (Richard D. Cohen Lectures on African & African… (2020) 8 copie
Plays: Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Source of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy v. 2 (Contemporary… (1999) 5 copie
The Swamp Dwellers 5 copie
Before our very eyes : tribute to Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1987) 4 copie
The Blackman and the Veil: A Century On (W.E.B. Du Bois-Padmore-Nkrumah Pan-African Lectures Series) (1993) 3 copie
The Strong Breed 3 copie
INTERVENTIONS VOL II 2 copie
INTERVENTIONS VOL I 2 copie
Before the Blackout 1 copia
Wole Soyinka Ki Kavitayen 1 copia
“Telephone Conversation” 1 copia
Tumači 1 copia
Denne fortid må tale til sin nutid : nobelprisforelæsning, Stockholm 1986 : tilegnet Nelson Mandela (1987) 1 copia
Outsiders 1 copia
Madmen and specialists : a play 1 copia
The world as it is : In the eyes of Margaret Atwood, Wole Soyinka, Ai Weiwei (1986) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Teatro africano 1 copia
Outsiders 1 copia
La mmorphose de Fr J 1 copia
Jero's Metamorphosis 1 copia
Man And Nature 1 copia
Tumaci 1 copia
Poems from Prison 1 copia
Etiki Revu Wetin 1 copia
Transition 52: An International Review New Series Volume 1 Number 2, 1991 Race, The Final Frontier 1 copia
Opere correlate
La foresta dei mille demoni: ovvero una libera traduzione di "Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale" di D. O. Fagunwa (1939) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 101 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Soyinka, Wole
- Nome legale
- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole
- Altri nomi
- Soyinka, Wole
- Data di nascita
- 1934
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Nigeria
- Luogo di nascita
- Abeokuta, Nigeria
- Luogo di residenza
- Abeokuta, Nigeria
- Istruzione
- Grammar School, AbeoKuta
Government College di Ibadan, Nigeria
Università a Ibadan
Università di Leeds, Inghilterra ottenuto il Ph. D. in letteratura inglese, greco antico, storia - Attività lavorative
- scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo, critico
Impiegato a Lagos
Suggeritore per il Royal Court Theatre di Londra
drammaturgo al Royal Court Theatre di Londra
docente di inglese all'Università di Ife, Yale, Cornell, Harvard, Sheffield e Cambridge
editor della rivista "Transition" ad Accra, Ghana - Relazioni
- Soyinka, Samuel Ayodele (padre)
Soyinka, Grace Eniola (madre)
Skeath, Barbara (moglie)
Kuri, Fela (cugino)
Idowi, Laide (moglie)
Folake, Doherty (moglie) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1986)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 10)
Commander, Order of the Federal Republic (1986)
Benson Medal (1990)
Golden Plate Award (2009)
International Humanist Award (2014) - Breve biografia
- fonda il gruppo teatrale "Le maschere 1960"
crea la compagnia "Teatro Orisun"
Utenti
Discussioni
Wole Soyinka returns to Biafra in All Books Africa (Ottobre 2007)
Recensioni
Liste
Writers at Risk (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 130
- Opere correlate
- 24
- Utenti
- 4,425
- Popolarità
- #5,662
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 44
- ISBN
- 316
- Lingue
- 19
- Preferito da
- 6
È un “romanzo” con le virgolette, perché non è palese la struttura di una storia che si sviluppa. Abbiamo piuttosto un mosaico di azioni e di dialoghi, con registri diversi e non sempre afferrabili di primo acchito (molto utile, per questo, l’Introduzione di Marco Grampa). Un’opera la cui lettura non va certo relegata ai… ritagli di tempo.… (altro)