Wole Soyinka
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1986who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence
- Citizenship
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Nigeria - Languages
- Yoruba, English, Nigerian Pidgin
- date of birth
- 7/13/1934
- place of birth
- Ogun State
- Age
- 92 years
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- employer
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- University of Lagos
- Loyola Marymount University
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Emory University
- Harvard University
- University of Oxford
- Yale University
- New York University
- Cornell University
- occupation
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- writer
- poet
- translator
- professor
- playwright
- philosopher
- novelist
- essayist
- satirical novelist
- field of work
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- performing arts
- position held
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- UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
- educated at
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- University of Ibadan
- University of London
- University of Leeds
- Abeokuta Grammar School
- member of
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- Royal Society of Literature
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- notable work
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- Harmattan Haze on an African Spring
- The Interpreters
- The Lion and the Jewel
- Season of Anomy
- Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth