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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

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Wole Soyinka

Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian author, best known as a playwright and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty five plays and five memoirs. He also wrote two translated works and many articles and…
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Nobel Prize in Literature

Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature, is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most…
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