Wole Soyinka

Broschiertes Buch

Death and the King's Horseman

Beschreibung

Based on real events that took place in Oyo, the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's play tells how Simon Pilkings, a well-meaning District Officer, intervenes to prevent the ritual suicide of the Yoruba chief, Elesin. This Student Edition includes a full introduction, commentary and questions for study.

Autor

Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934. Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012. A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.

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Produktdetails

• Modern Classics
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 152g
• ISBN-13: 9780413695505
• ISBN-10: 0413695506
• Artikelnr.: 22046436