Soyinka

[ shaw-ying-kuh ]

noun

1. Wo·le [woh, -ley], born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1986.

Soyinka

/ sɔˈjɪŋkə /

noun

1. SoyinkaWole1934MNigerianTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: novelistWRITING: poetWRITING: literary critic Wole (ˈwoːle). born 1934, Nigerian dramatist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. His works include the plays The Strong Breed (1963), The Road (1965), and Kongi's Harvest (1966), the novel The Interpreters (1965), and the political essays The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (1999); forced into exile by the military regime (1993–98). Nobel prize for literature 1986

Example Sentences

This is a Biennale that speaks the language of assurance, but is actually soaked in anxiety, and too often resorts, as the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka deplored in a poem, to “cast the sanctimonious stone / And leave frail beauty shredded in the square / Of public shame.”

From New York Times

And writers from other African countries and the diaspora, such as Wole Soyinka and Maya Angelou, have called Accra home, even if only for a short time.

From New York Times

In “The Beatification of Area Boy,” by Wole Soyinka, a multilayered, exhilarating and moving play, the author presents a day in the life of Sanda, a security officer and the “King of Area Boys,” unraveling his relationship with the tenants and patrons of a Lagosian shopping center.

From New York Times

In 2000 Nigerian journalist Adejuwon Soyinka reported that these medical certificates were fake, but Joshua quashed his investigation and it went nowhere.

From BBC

“Sick old men,” Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said in an interview.

From Seattle Times