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Born August 29, 1924 • Calabar • Nigeria
Died August 16, 2007 (aged 82) • Calabar • Nigeria
Notable Works “Children of the Goddess and Other Plays” • “Medicine for Love: A Comedy in Three Acts” • “The Jewels of the Shrine”
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie smiling, wearing a black top and long braids styled in a top bun, at the Economic Forum of Cernobbio in Italy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian author
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John Pepper Clark
Nigerian author
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Elechi Amadi
Nigerian writer
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Hubert Ogunde
Nigerian playwright, actor, and musician
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Ola Rotimi
Nigerian scholar and dramatist
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Kole Omotoso
Nigerian novelist
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Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic