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Wole Soyinka

Autor(a) de Aké: The Years of Childhood

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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

Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981) 720 cópias
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) 522 cópias
Interpreters (1965) 326 cópias
The Lion and the Jewel (1962) 155 cópias
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) 152 cópias
Collected Plays 1 (1973) 141 cópias
Season of Anomy (1973) 126 cópias
Collected Plays 2 (1974) 112 cópias
Of Africa (2012) 69 cópias
Madmen and Specialists (1743) 64 cópias
Poems of Black Africa (1975) 63 cópias
Idanre and Other Poems (1967) 63 cópias
A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972) 55 cópias
Kongi's Harvest (1967) 43 cópias
A Dance of the Forests (1963) 41 cópias
The Road (1965) 33 cópias
Six Plays (1984) 31 cópias
Selected Poems (2002) 18 cópias
Early Poems (1998) 13 cópias
Naar Afrika (1998) 12 cópias
Ogun Abibiman (1976) 9 cópias
King Baabu (2002) 8 cópias
Five plays 8 cópias
Opera wonyosi (1981) 7 cópias
Requiem for a Futurologist (1985) 5 cópias
The trials of Brother Jero (1969) 5 cópias
Teatro (1987) 5 cópias
A Scourge of Hyacinths (1999) 4 cópias
The Strong Breed 3 cópias
Salutation to the gut (2002) 2 cópias
Outsiders 1 exemplar(es)
Teatro africano 1 exemplar(es)
Gekken & specialisten (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
Vrijeme rasapa (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Tumači 1 exemplar(es)
Alapata Apata (2015) 1 exemplar(es)
A Democracy Day Primer (2019) 1 exemplar(es)
Il peso della memoria (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Afrika'ya Dair (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
La mmorphose de Fr J 1 exemplar(es)
Man And Nature 1 exemplar(es)
Kuranty ciszy i inne wiersze (1982) 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)
Ws: A Life in Full (Paper) (2004) 1 exemplar(es)
The Invention and The Detainee (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Gedichten (1987) 1 exemplar(es)
Tolkene (1980) 1 exemplar(es)
La ‰strada: teatro (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
Tumaci 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Contribuinte — 1,371 cópias
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952) — Introdução, algumas edições495 cópias
African Folktales (1983) — Introdução, algumas edições417 cópias
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contribuinte — 332 cópias
Ambiguous Adventure (1961) — Posfácio, algumas edições309 cópias
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996) — Contribuinte — 304 cópias
Modern Poetry from Africa (1963) — Contribuinte — 265 cópias
The Last Summer of Reason (2001) — Prefácio, algumas edições221 cópias
Granta 108: Chicago (2009) — Contribuinte — 141 cópias
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga (1939) — Tradutor, algumas edições101 cópias
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (2006) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
An African Treasury (1960) — Contribuinte — 68 cópias
Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (2014) — Introdução — 65 cópias
James Baldwin: The Legacy (A Touchstone book) (1989) — Prefácio — 55 cópias
Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology (2001) — Contribuinte — 32 cópias
One World of Literature (1992) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
African Literature: an anthology of criticism and theory (2007) — Contribuinte — 23 cópias
Out of Bounds: British, Black, and Asian Poets (2012) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Shakespeare and Race (2000) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
The word is here : poetry from modern Africa (1973) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias

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Wole Soyinka returns to Biafra em All Books Africa (Outubro 2007)

Resenhas

Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka has written plays, poems and novels steeped in what Nigerian tradition there is and that of his own Yoruba people. Since he first rose to prominence in the early 1960s he has been centrally involved in the complex and dangerous world of Nigerian politics, which has led on occasion to both imprisonment and forced exile.

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/
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KenOlende | Feb 4, 2024 |
This immersive collection of Soyinka's early poetry is powerful and engrossing, densely packed with an appreciation for Nigerian culture and history, the natural world, and the difficulties inherent in a long-established culture suddenly being pulled all at once into the twentieth century and all that came with it. Soyinka's language is, as ever, tense and demanding, but full of such images and moments as make any collection shine.

This isn't an easy collection, but I was glad to immerse myself in it, and plan to revisit it at length. I'd recommend it for those interested in Soyinka's early work or African poetry. Soyinka was the first African writer to ever be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and it's clear why.… (mais)
 
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whitewavedarling | Dec 3, 2023 |
J’étais curieuse de découvrir ce livre et cet auteur que je ne connaissais pas. La lecture s’est révélée pour moi un peu lente et laborieuse, mais je ne saurais pas dire exactement pourquoi. La mise en scène de son enfance par Wole Soyinka ne manque pas de piquant. A l’en croire, il fut un petit garçon très perspicace et plein d’espièglerie.
On sent bien comment Wole Soyinka reconstruit son enfance pour expliquer l’homme qu’il est devenu, tout en laissant une grande place aux lieux et à l’époque. Sachant qu’il est devenu avant tout un homme de théâtre, je trouve cette mise en scène qui ne se cache pas intéressante et savoureuse à la fois.
Une intéressante et étrange lecture, donc. Je ne suis pas certaine cependant de lire les autres tomes des mémoires de Wole Soyinka, mais je ne serais pas contre voir une de ses pièces et, en attendant le bon vouloir d’un metteur en scène, je me laisserais bien tenter par le roman qu’il a publié il y a peu et dont la traduction vient de paraître en France sous le long et un peu énigmatique titre [Chroniques du pays des gens les plus heureux du monde].
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raton-liseur | outras 10 resenhas | Oct 30, 2023 |
you might need a dictionary
author is a major literary figure and his vocabulary is superb
he is Nigerian (not an outside journalist)
 
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pollycallahan | Jul 1, 2023 |

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