Wole Soyinka
Autor(a) de Aké: The Years of Childhood
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras de Wole Soyinka
Contemporary African Plays: Death and the King's Horseman, Woza Albert!, Anowa, The Chattering and the Song, The… (1999) 9 cópias
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (Richard D. Cohen Lectures on African & African… (2020) 8 cópias
Five plays 8 cópias
The Swamp Dwellers 5 cópias
Plays: Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Source of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy v. 2 (Contemporary… (1999) 5 cópias
Before our very eyes : tribute to Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1987) 4 cópias
The Blackman and the Veil: A Century On (W.E.B. Du Bois-Padmore-Nkrumah Pan-African Lectures Series) (1993) 3 cópias
The Strong Breed 3 cópias
INTERVENTIONS VOL I 2 cópias
INTERVENTIONS VOL II 2 cópias
“Telephone Conversation” 1 exemplar(es)
Cultural relativism & absolute rights 1 exemplar(es)
Wole Soyinka Ki Kavitayen 1 exemplar(es)
Outsiders 1 exemplar(es)
Reflections : Nigerian prose and verse 1 exemplar(es)
Al di la dell'estetica: uso, abuso e dissonanze nelle tradizioni artistiche africane (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Teatro africano 1 exemplar(es)
Tumači 1 exemplar(es)
Denne fortid må tale til sin nutid : nobelprisforelæsning, Stockholm 1986 : tilegnet Nelson Mandela (1987) 1 exemplar(es)
Soyinka (premio Nobel 1986: Gli interpreti, La strada, La morte e il cavaliere del re) 1 exemplar(es)
Du 656: Arche Afrika. Ausbruch ins Eigene 1 exemplar(es)
Le lion et la perle (Afrique en scène) 1 exemplar(es)
The world as it is : In the eyes of Margaret Atwood, Wole Soyinka, Ai Weiwei (1986) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Transition Issue 59: Black and Right, The New Conservatives 1 exemplar(es)
La mmorphose de Fr J 1 exemplar(es)
Man And Nature 1 exemplar(es)
Interventions III - The Unappeasable Price of Appeasement 1 exemplar(es)
Before the Blackout 1 exemplar(es)
Jero's Metamorphosis 1 exemplar(es)
Etiki Revu Wetin 1 exemplar(es)
Poems from Prison 1 exemplar(es)
The Seven Signposts of Existence: Knowledge, Honour, Justice and Other Virtues (2000) 1 exemplar(es)
Tumaci 1 exemplar(es)
InterInventions: Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie 1 exemplar(es)
Interventions VII - Green Cards, Green Gods - A Sequel to The Republic of Liars (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
Mannen dog anteckningar från fängelset 1 exemplar(es)
Transition 52: An International Review New Series Volume 1 Number 2, 1991 Race, The Final Frontier 1 exemplar(es)
Transition 53: An International Review New Series Volume 1 Number 3, 1991, Fade to Black 1 exemplar(es)
Transition 54: An International Review New Series Volume 1 Number 4, 1991 Knowledge and Tradition 1 exemplar(es)
Transition 69: An International Review New Series Volume 6, Number 1, 1996 Rajat Neogy 1938-1995, Founding Editor 1 exemplar(es)
Death and the King's Horseman: A Play 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952) — Introdução, algumas edições — 495 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole
- Outros nomes
- Soyinka, Wole
- Data de nascimento
- 1934
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Nigeria
- Local de nascimento
- Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
- Locais de residência
- Abeokuta, Nigeria
Ibadan, Nigeria
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK - Educação
- University of Leeds (BA|1958)
St. Peter's Primary School, Abeokuta, Nigeria
Abeokuta Grammar School
Government College, Ibadan, Nigeria
University College, Ibadan, Nigeria - Ocupação
- playwright
poet
novelist
critic - Organizações
- Royal Court Theatre
University of Ifẹ̀
Cornell University - Premiações
- 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) (mostrar todas 10)
Commander, Order of the Federal Republic (1986)
Benson Medal (1990)
Golden Plate Award (2009)
International Humanist Award (2014) - Pequena biografia
- fonda il gruppo teatrale "Le maschere 1960"
crea la compagnia "Teatro Orisun"
Membros
Discussions
Wole Soyinka returns to Biafra em All Books Africa (Outubro 2007)
Resenhas
Listas
Writers at Risk (1)
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 126
- Also by
- 24
- Membros
- 4,367
- Popularidade
- #5,742
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 44
- ISBNs
- 316
- Idiomas
- 19
- Favorito
- 6
You Must Set Forth at Dawn is his third volume of memoirs, if his powerful 1972 prison notebook The Man Died is included as well as his 1981 childhood reminiscences, Aké the Years of Childhood.
Soyinka is an engaged writer, who is at the centre of all the stories he tells. Occasionally in a book that stretches to nearly 600 pages that leads to self-indulgence, and he is not one to avoid florid writing. However he is always an insightful commentator on Nigeria and it is undoubtedly true that he has often been near the centre of events…
He returned from studying abroad to travel around Nigeria researching traditional drama, and was amazed at the national borders colonialism had established, “Culture and language differed within each nation as frequently and profoundly as they found identities across the borders of such nation spaces; the arbitrariness and illogicality of their groupings hit any traveller in the face.”…
The expansion of his own political engagement, such as the symbolic stealing of a presidential speech, matches the descent of Nigeria into military dictatorship and the brutal Biafran war. Writing about the crazed logic of bureaucracy under military dictatorship, or the corruption of the anti-corruption soldiers gives a convincing feel of the times. This atmosphere is the book’s real strength…
His narrative can be frustrating and occasionally infuriating as it weaves poetically around his life, structured for the best punch line rather than clarity. But, in the end it tells you something about the history of Nigeria and modern Africa. It is anecdotal rather than historical, but it never claims otherwise.
Socialist Review, Issue 316, July 2007 https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/you-must-set-forth-dawn/… (mais)