Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka
Pekerjaan	Penulis
Warganegara	Nigeria
Genre	Drama, Puisi
Subjek	Kesusasteraan perbandingan
Anugerah	Templat:Awd
Dipengaruhi Mitologi Yoruba

Akinwande Oluwole Wole Soyinka (lahir 13 Julai 1934) adalah rakyat Nigeria. Beliau merupakan penulis, penyair dan dramawan. Beliau memenangi Hadiah Nobel dalam Kesusasteraan pada tahun 1986. Beliau adalah warga Afrika pertama menerima kehormatan itu. Pada tahun 1994, dia dilantik oleh UNESCO sebagai Duta Muhibah untuk mempromosikan budaya, hak asasi manusia, kebebasan berekspresi, media dan komunikasi Afrika.

Hasil karya

Drama

• The Swamp Dwellers
• The Lion and the Jewel
• The Trials of Brother Jero
• A Dance of the Forests
• The Strong Breed
• Before the Blackout
• Kongi's Harvest
• The Road
• The Bacchae of Euripides
• Madmen and Specialists
• Camwood on the Leaves
• Jero's Metamorphosis
• Death and the King's Horseman
• Opera Wonyosi
• Requiem for a Futurologist
• A Play of Giants
• A Scourge of Hyacinths (radio play)
• From Zia, with Love
• The Beatification of the Area Boy
• King Baabu
• Etiki Revu Wetin

Novel

• The Interpreters
• Season of Anomie

Memoir

• The Man Died : Prison Notes
• Aké: The Years of Childhood
• Isara: A Voyage around Essay
• Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1946-65
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Kumpulan puisi

• A Big Airplane Crashed Into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison)
• Idanre and other poems
• Mandela's Earth and other poems
• Ogun Abibiman
• Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known
• Abiku
• "After the Deluge"
• "Telephone Conversation"

Esei

• Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
• Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture
• Myth, Literature and the African World
• "From Drama and the African World View"

• The Burden of Memory The Muse of Forgiveness

Filem

• Culture in Transition
• Blues For a Prodigal