Wole Soyinka
1934-Present Day
Born: Nigeria, 1934
Biography
Nigerian Wole Soyinka is an award winning writer, poet, playwright and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. After graduating from the Government College in Ibadan, Nigeria, Soyinka studied drama at the University of Leeds during the 1950s. Following his graduation he worked as a script-reader, actor, and director at the Royal Court Theatre before returning to Nigeria to study African drama. In 1960 he founded “The 1960 Masks”, followed by the “Orisun Theatre Company” in 1964. Soyinka’s career as a political activist in exile is inseparable from his writing which has earned him worldwide acclaim.
Productions
Death and The King's Horseman
Year: 1990
Staged in: Royal Exchange Theatre; 1976-
Beatification of Area Boy, The
Year: 1995
Staged in: West Yorkshire Playhouse
Publications
The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed
Year: 1992
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Wole Soyinka Collected Plays: Volume 2
Year: 1974
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Wole Soyinka Collected Plays: Volume 1
Year: 1973
Publisher: Oxford University Press