Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category.

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Category:1934 births
Category:Living people
Category:Nigerian writers
Category:Playwrights
Category:Nigerian poets
Category:Recipients of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award
Category:People from Ogun State
Category:20th-century poets
Category:21st-century poets
Category:Nobel Prize in Literature winners