Nobel laureate
Wole Soyinka — Nobel Prize in Literature 1986
“who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”
Prize motivation
“who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”
The Swedish Academy awarded Wole Soyinka the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.
Other laureates of the 1980s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).