Wole Soyinka: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
Born	July 13, 1934 (age 92) • Abeokuta • Nigeria
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize
Notable Works	“A Dance of the Forests” • “A Shuttle in the Crypt” • “Art, Dialogue, and Outrage” • “Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth” • “Death and the King’s Horseman” • “Idanre and Other Poems” • “Jero’s Metamorphosis” • “Kongi’s Harvest” • “Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems” • “Myth, Literature, and the African World” • “Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known” • “Season of Anomy” • “The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness” • “The Interpreters” • “The Lion and the Jewel” • “The Open Sore of a Continent” • “The Road” • “The Strong Breed” • “The Trials of Brother Jero” • “You Must Set Forth at Dawn”