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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Marla Singer to Rod Steiger
Wole Soyinka Biography (1934-)
Surname is pronounced "Shoy-ink-a"; full name, Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka; born July 13, 1934, in Isata, Nigeria; son of Ayo and Eniola Soyinka; married second wife, Olayide Idowu (a teacher), 1963. Addresses: OFFICE--P.O. Box 935, Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria. AGENT: Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, 437 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022.
- Nationality
- Nigerian
- Gender
- Male
- Birth Details
- July 13, 1934
- Isata, Nigeria
Famous Works
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Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
- Kongi, Kongi's Harvest, Herald Productions, 1971.
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Writings;STAGE
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The Invention, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1955.
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The Swamp Dwellers, 1959, published in Three Plays, Mbari Publications, 1962, then Northwestern University Press, 1963, and in Five Plays, Oxford University Press, 1964.
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The Lion and the Jewel, 1959, produced at the Royal Court Theatre,London, 1966, published by Oxford University Press, 1962, and in Five Plays,Oxford University Press, 1964.
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A Dance of the Forest, 1960, published by Oxford University Press,1962, and in Five Plays, Oxford University Press, 1964.
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The Trials of Brother Jero, 1961, produced at the Greenwich Mews Playhouse, New York City, 1967, published in Three Plays, Mbari Publications,1962, then Northwestern University Press, 1963, in Five Plays, Oxford University Press, 1964, and in The Jero Plays, Methuen, 1973.
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The Strong Breed, 1962, produced at the Greenwich Mews Playhouse,1967, published in Three Plays, Mbari Publications, 1962, then Northwestern University Press, 1963, and in Five Plays, Oxford University Press, 1964.
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The Road, produced at Theatre Royal, Stratford-on-Avon, U.K., 1965, then Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1984, published by Oxford University Press, 1965.
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Kongi's Harvest, 1965, produced at St. Mark's Playhouse, New YorkCity, 1968, published by Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Madmen and Specialists, Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre, Waterford, CT, 1970, published by Methuen, 1971, then Hill & Wang, 1972.
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Before the Blackout, 1971.
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The Bacchae of Euripides, Old Vic Theatre, London, 1973, publishedby Methuen, 1973.
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Jero's Metamorphosis, 1973, published in The Jero Plays, Methuen,1973.
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Camwood on the Leaves, 1973, published by Methuen, 1973.
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Death and the King's Horseman, 1975, produced at the Goodman Theatre, 1979, then Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1987.
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Opera Wonyosi, 1978.
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The Beatification of Area Boy, first produced in Leeds, England, 1996.
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Writings;FILM
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Kongi's Harvest, Herald Productions, 1971.
- Also Blues for a Prodigal, 1985.
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Writings;TELEVISION
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Culture in Transition.
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Writings;RADIO
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Camwood on the Leaves, 1960.
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Writings;OTHER
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The Interpreters(fiction), Deutsch, 1965.
- (with D. O. Fagunwa) The Forest of a Thousand Daemons (fiction), Nelson, 1967, then Humanities Press, 1969.
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Idanre and Other Poems (poetry), Methuen, 1967, then Hill & Wang, 1969.
- (contributor) The Morality of Art (non-fiction) Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
- (contributor)African Prose, Penguin, 1969.
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Poems from Prison(poetry), Rex Collings, 1969, then as A Shuttle in the Crypt, Hill & Wang, 1972.
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Season of Anomy (fiction), Rex Collings, 1973.
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The Man Died(memoirs), Rex Collings, 1972, then Harper, 1973.
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Collected Plays, Oxford University Press, Volume I, 1973, Volume II, 1974.
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Death and the King's Horseman, Norton, 1975.
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A Play of Giants, Methuen, 1984.
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Six Plays, Methuen, 1984.
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Requiem for a Futurologist, Rex Collings, 1985.
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Isara: A Voyage Around Essay, Random House, 1988.
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Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture, NewHorn Press, 1990.
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Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir, Random House, 1989.
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Isara: A Voyage around "Essay," Spectrum Books (Ibadan), 1994.
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis, Oxford University Press, 1996.
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The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Arms and the Arts -- A Continent's Unequal Dialogue , University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa), 1999.
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Conversations with Wole Soyinka, edited by Biodun Jeyifo, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2001.
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