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Presents an interview and retrospective on the Nobel Laureate wole soyinka, with excerpts of his writings. Includes links to a biography. Our guest is Nobel laureate wole soyinka. In an extraordinarily prolific and rich body of work including plays, novels,
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Extractions: Photo by S. Beth Atkin This interview is part of the Institute's "Conversations with History" series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public Berkeley's distinction as a global forum for ideas. Welcome to a Conversation with History. Our guest is Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. In an extraordinarily prolific and rich body of work including plays, novels, poems, and essays, Professor Soyinka draws on both Yoruba and western culture to exquisitely weave a subtle understanding of the tragedy and comedy of the human condition. As a human rights activist, he has been a courageous voice for justice, freedom, and the end of tyranny. He has risked his life again and again to articulate the moral principles that provide the foundation for human rights, both in his native Nigeria and around the world. Background: The Early Years values ... words ... mother ... Yoruba culture ... school ... childhood figures
Wole Soyinka Winner Of The 1986 Nobel Prize In Literature
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Wole Soyinka Winner Of The 1986 Nobel Prize In Literature
wole soyinka, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. wole soyinka. 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature
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Presidential Lectures: Wole Soyinka: Soyinka On...
Topical Excerpts from Interviews with wole soyinka Excerpted from When the ManDied Views, Reviews, and Interview on wole soyinka's Controversial Book.
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Extractions: Full text of this interview available online I personally find that I work more in solitude. I find the company of other writers pretty trying if, that is if such writers insist on talking about their work because I don't like talking about the process of writing. But I do acknowledge that there are some writers who thrive on this continuous exchange of ideas...I really find it very, very difficult for me to try and intrude into the creative process of another writer. In fact this creates difficulty for me when young writers come to me for help and advice...if it is worthwhile and I can recognise the actual organic process of bringing out this matter then I find myself very, very reluctant to offer any suggestion. I must confess that I find it impossible to enter into a dialogue with a writer over a work in progress. Interview by John Agetua
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Nigeria Ein Pulverfaß + Interview Mit Wole Soyinka
Reisebericht ¼ber Nigeria und ein Interview mit dem Literaturnobelpreistr¤ger wole soyinka ¼ber die politische Lage des Landes.
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Extractions: Angelika Burkhard Wie immer, Ende Kano liegt im Bis heute konnten Um Ausgleich sorgen Ken Saro-Wiwa (vgl. Peter Mosler: "Hört irgend jemand zu? Ken Saro-Wiwa und die Zerstörung des Ogoni-Landes-, Kommune 10/96), der im November 1995 zusammen mit acht weiteren Bürgerrechtlern in Port Harcourt gehängt wurde, hatte ebenfalls ein Stück dieser "nigerianischen Karriere- durchlaufen. Er spekulierte nach dem Biafra-Krieg mit zerstörten Häusern und wurde Millionär. Er war Politiker im Nigerdelta, Schriftsteller, Fernsehproduzent und Verleger. In den siebziger Jahren wohnte er in der Nachbarschaft General Abachas, des Mannes, der ihn später hinrichten ließ, nachdem er ihm noch einige Zeit davor einen Posten in der Politik angeboten haben soll, wie das Nachrichtenmagazin TELL Die Propaganda der regierungstreuen Radio- und Fernsehanstalten hat Ken Saro-Wiwa noch zu Lebzeiten in Mißkredit gebracht. Im Norden halten ihn die einfachen Menschen deshalb für einen, der sich genauso bereichern wollte, wie alle einflußreichen Leute des Landes. Im Delta dagegen bekommt man zu hören, daß die im Norden den Reichtum aus dem Ölgeschäft einheimsen und Angst hätten, daß sich der Süden vom Land abspalten könnte. Ken Saro-Wiwa ist im Delta ein Held und Märtyrer. Besonders im Norden ist man mißtrauisch, weil er in Europa und Amerika solche Popularität erlangte. "Er ist nicht der erste und nicht der letzte, der hingerichtet wurde-, heißt es abwehrend. "Warum habt ihr euch gerade für den so erwärmt?-
Wole Soyinka - Biography
wole soyinka Biography. wole soyinka was born on 13 July 1934at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory
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Extractions: Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University of Leeds , where, later, in 1973, he took his doctorate. During the six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time, he taught drama and literature at various universities in Ibadan, Lagos, and Ife, where, since 1975, he has been professor of comparative literature. In 1960, he founded the theatre group, "The 1960 Masks" and in 1964, the "Orisun Theatre Company", in which he has produced his own plays and taken part as actor. He has periodically been visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge , Sheffield, and Yale During the civil war in Nigeria, Soyinka appealed in an article for cease-fire. For this he was arrested in 1967, accused of conspiring with the Biafra rebels, and was held as a political prisoner for 22 months untill 1969. Soyinka has published about 20 works: drama, novels and poetry. He writes in English and his literary language is marked by great scope and richness of words.
Wole Soyinka Winner Of The 1986 Nobel Prize In Literature
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Wole Soyinka, 1998 Elberg Lecturer
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Extractions: Wole Soyinka is the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1934, Soyinka studied first at the University College of Ibadan, then at Leeds University in England, where he received his Ph.D. in 1973. Soyinka's literary career began in the experimental theater of the 1950s in England. In 1960 he was commissioned by the Nigerian government to write a play celebrating Nigerian independence. His play, A Dance of the Forests, has been called "a lyrical blend of Western experimentalism and African folk tradition, reflecting a highly original approach to drama." (Professor Paul Brians, Washington State Unversity Department of English) Early plays include The Lion and the Jewel The Trials of Brother Jero (1964), and Madmen and Specialists (1970). Other well-known works include his memoir
Wole Soyinka- Nobel Lecture
Transcript of wole soyinka's 1986 Nobel lecture.
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Extractions: Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 A rather curious scene, unscripted, once took place in the wings of a London theatre at the same time as the scheduled performance was being presented on the actual stage, before an audience. What happened was this: an actor refused to come on stage for his allocated role. Action was suspended. A fellow actor tried to persuade him to emerge, but he stubbornly shook his head. Then a struggle ensued. The second actor had hoped that, by suddenly exposing the reluctant actor to the audience in full glare of the spotlight, he would have no choice but to rejoin the cast. And so he tried to take the delinquent actor by surprise, pulling him suddenly towards the stage. He did not fully succeed, so a brief but untidy struggle began. The unwilling actor was completely taken aback and deeply embarrassed - some of that tussle was quite visible to a part of the audience. And now let us remove some of the mystery and make that incident a little more concrete. The scene was the Royal Court Theatre, London, 1958. It was one of those Sunday nights which were given to experimentation, an innovation of that remarkable theatre manager-director, George Devine, whose creative nurturing radicalised British theatre of that period and produced later icons like John Osborne, N. F. Simpson, Edward Bond, Arnold Wesker, Harold Pinter, John Arden, etc., and even forced the then conservative British palate to sample stylistic and ideological pariahs like
Ten Nobels For The Future
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Dieci Nobel Per Il Futuro
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Wole Soyinka: An Overview
Biography Works Postimperial Literature. History Politics ReligionScience Technology. Visual Arts Themes Genre Characterization.
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Wole Soyinka And The Archetype Of Ulysses
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Extractions: In A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972), Wole Soyinka presents seven thematic groups of poems composed during Soyinka's imprisonment for political protests against the Nigerian government. One of these thematic groups, titled "Four archetypes," comprises four poems"Joseph," "Hamlet," "Gulliver," and "Ulysses"each of which draws an analogy between Soyinka and the corresponding character from literature. In particular, the poem "Ulysses" employs allusions to Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), referring to both works for the archetypical figure of a wandering man who has become separated from his home and his past. Thus, by forming parallels between his life and the stories of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, Soyinka not only dramatizes his imprisonment by the Nigerian government, but also examines the isolation of all individuals. In "Ulysses," Soyinka employs a first-person monologue that serves as the personal voice of the poet. In this fashion, Soyinka steps away from the Modernist (and sometimes Victorian) use of dramatic monologue in poetry, a technique which often produces a narrator who cannot be trusted to deliver the poet's meaning in his own words. Rather than using an intermediary such as Robert Browning 's Duke of Ferrara or T. S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock, Soyinka speaks for himself, and thus initially "Ulysses" appears to function much like the poetry of Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth and John Keats. However, whereas the Romantic poets tend to write in a relatively straightforward first-person style that extolls the individuality of man, Soyinka uses a more convoluted first-person narrative that seems to emphasize the loneliness which stems from that individuality. Thus, Soyinka uses the first person in poetry much like Joyce uses it in prose, employing a stream-of- consciousness technique that emphasizes the necessarily unique and isolated nature of each individual.
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Soyinka, Wole
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Extractions: Pronunciation Key Soyinka, Wole Yoruba The Man Died (1973). In 1986 Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Again under threat of arrest from the Nigerian government, he fled the country in 1994. After the death of Nigeria's military dictator (1998), Soyinka returned home, where he resumed his political activism. Soyinka's works are concerned with the tensions between spiritual and material worlds, with beliefs as the underpinnings of social relations, and with individuals' dependence on one another. His widely performed plays often highlight the problems of daily life in Africa; best known are Death and the King's Horseman (1975) and A Play of Giants (1984), a satiric attack on contemporary Africa. His novels include
Soyinka, Wole
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Extractions: Soyinka Vernon L. Smith in full AKINWANDE OLUWOLE SOYINKA (b. July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria), Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1986. He wrote of modern West Africa in a satirical style and with a tragic sense of the obstacles to human progress. A member of the Yoruba people, Soyinka attended Government College and University College in Ibadan before graduating in English in 1958 from the University of Leeds, in England. Upon his return to Nigeria he founded a national theatre, The 1960 Masks (later the Orisun Theatre), and wrote his first important play, A Dance of the Forests (produced 1960, published 1963), for the Nigerian independence celebrations. The play satirizes the fledgling nation by stripping it of romantic legend and by showing that the present is no more a golden age than was the past. In plays of a lighter vein he made fun of pompous, Westernized schoolteachers, as in The Lion and the Jewel (first performed in Ibadan, 1959; published 1963), and he mocked the clever preachers of upstart prayer-churches who grow fat on the credulity of their parishioners, as in
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