Nigerian playwright wins Nobel literature prize
NZPA Stockholm The Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka has won the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, the first African author and the first black to do so in the 85-year history of the world’s most prestigious literary award. The Swedish Academy said it had honoured him
because ‘in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones (he) fashions the drama of existence.* Soyinka, aged 52, who spent two years as a political prisoner during the 1967-70 Nigerian civil war, has long been regarded as Africa’s leading playwright
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Press, 17 October 1986, Page 4
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