WOLE SOYINKA, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature, celebrated his 81st birthday this week. Superlatives are often used to describe this dazzling versatile literary genius, who is, among other things a poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, academic, critic, polemicist, biographer, actor, film producer, humanist – and a connoisseur of wines!
Soyinka’s Publications over the
decades
The
Swamp Dwellers (1958)
The
Lion and the Jewel (1959)
The
Trials of Brother Jero
A
Dance of the Forests (1960)
The
Strong Breed (1964)
Kongi's
Harvest (1964)
The
Road (1965)
Madmen
and Specialists (1970)
The
Bacchae of Euripides (1973)
Death
and the King's Horseman (1975)
Opera
Wonyosi (1977)
Requiem
for a Futurologist (1983)
A
Play of Giants (1984)
The
Beatification of Area Boy (1996)
King
Baabu (2001)
The
Interpreters (novel)
Season
of Anomy (1972)
The
Man Died: Prison Notes (1971)
Aké:
The Years of Childhood (1981)
Ibadan:
The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1946-65 (1989)
Isara:
A Voyage around Essay (1990)
You
Must Set Forth at Dawn (2006)
Idanre
and other poems (1967)
A
Shuttle in the Crypt (1971)
Myth,
Literature and the African World (1976)
Mandela's
Earth and other poems (1988)
Art,
Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988)
The
Credo of Being and Nothingness (1991)
The
Burden of Memory – The Muse of Forgiveness (1999)
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