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Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (b. July 13, 1934 in Nigeria) is a Yoruba writer and the first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

Soyinka is very active in Nigerian politics; during the Nigerian Civil War he was detained and put in solitary confinement. He was released two years later after international attention was shed on his imprisonment. His experiences in prison are recounted in his novel The Man Died .

Soyinka was also briefly detained in 2004 after heading (with others) and participating in an anti-government rally in the Nigerian capital of Lagos.

He is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.

1 Works

1.1 Plays

A Dance of the Forests
The Lion and the Jewel
Death and the King's Horseman

1.2 Poetry collections

A Shuttle in the Crypt
Idanre and other poems
Mandela's Earth
Ogun Abibiman
Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known

2 External links

See also: List of African writers

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