Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (b. July 13, 1934) is a Nigerian writer (considered to be Africa's most distinguished playwright) and the first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

Works

Novels

• Aké (Childhood Autobiography)
• Season of Anomy
• The Interpreters

Plays

• The Swamp Dwellers
• The Lion and the Jewel
• The Trials of Brother Jero
• A Dance of the Forests
• The Lion and the Jewel
• Death and the King's Horseman
• Madmen and Specialists
• A Play of Giants
• The Beatification of the Area Boy
• King Baabu
• Camwood on the Leaves

Poetry collections

• A Shuttle in the Crypt
• Idanre and other poems
• Mandela's Earth
• Ogun Abibiman
• Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known

Essays

• Isara: A Voyage Around Essay
• Art, Dialogue, and Outrage