Soyinka, Wole (Vol. 3) - Soyinka, Wole 1934–

Soyinka, Wole 1934–

Nigerian playwright, novelist, translator, and critic, Soyinka is often credited with bringing Nigerian culture to the attention of the world. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 15-16.)

Wole Soyinka has already established a firm reputation in Great Britain, the United States, and Nigeria as his country's leading dramatist. He has also published his first novel, The Interpreters (London, 1965), and some poetry. In addition, he has been an actor and a theater producer—he formed his own company, the 1960 Masks, which in turn mounted his symbolistic work, A Dance of the Forests, in October, 1960, as part of the Nigerian independence celebrations. Soyinka has been a college teacher and drama critic as well. That he has accomplished so many things in so many fields in so short a time is in itself symptomatic of his great talent, but what is more exceptional is that the quality of his chief work—his...

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