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Soyinka Wole . born 1934, Nigerian dramatist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. His works include the plays The Strong Breed (1963), The Road (1965), and Kongi's Harvest (1966), the novel The Interpreters (1965), and the political essays The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (1999); forced into exile by the military regime (1993--98). Nobel prize for literature 1986 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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TANIA LEON is a Cuban-born composer and conductor who cofounded the Dance Theater of Harlem, She often hooks her music to literary works and has collaborated with John Ashbery, Wole Soyinka, Rita Dove, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid and other writers to create unique art pieces. Young Nigerians like Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Christopher Okigbo of the Mbari Writers' and Artists' Club (6) and the exiled South African author Ezekiel Mphahlele were all participants in the Makerere Conference, where attempts to define African literature in terms of its language or the skin color or national origin of its author failed miserably. 5 WOLE SOYINKA, THE INTERPRETERS (1965) A 1986 Nobel laureate, Soyinka was a political prisoner for 22 months during Nigeria's civil war in the '60s. |
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